Dmitry Enteo and activists of his organization raided the exhibition at the Manezh, which presented a sculpture by Vadim Siddur and other artists of the sixties, damaging several works under the “protection of God».
Activists of the Orthodox movement “God’s will”, headed by Dmitry Tsarionovym (Enteo) damaged a number of exhibits “Sculptures, which we do not see”, which opened on Friday, August 14 at the Moscow Manege.
Shortly before the action Enteo posted in his Twitter message to the media, in which he called the exhibition “a terrible blasphemy” and announced its intention to eliminate it.
As told “Gazeta.ru” the press-service association “Arena”, the halls became inadequate group of individuals who did not let the audience walk the halls. There were about seven people.
«part of the funds was defeated by association” Arena “- state funds. It is also partly affected by the sculptor Vadim Siddur, a veteran of the war, some of them completely destroyed, – said the “Arena”. – The result of the actions of this group suffered some works from the collection of “Arena” (a public meeting) and completely destroyed four linocuts Vadim Siddur. The details of the damage has not been rated. ”
Now the police work in the hall, but in the future, according to the “Arena”, the exhibition will go into normal operation until September 6.
«Security Manezh worked within the rules. They took inadequate people away and called the police. The police took them out of the hall and now conducts investigations. The decision to apply the law enforcement agencies will be made after assessment of the damage “, – stressed in the press-service.
The very Enteo comments in the radio station “Moscow speaking” he said the exhibits were not injured. In his opinion, presented at the exhibition of sculpture “scary scoff at Jesus Christ on the Mother of God, saints»
«The law on insulting the feelings of believers is exactly the same, it is the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and spit: the tickets are not tickets on the square, in the hall – it is unthinkable blasphemy, which will never be on our land. We will not allow to blaspheme our God “- added Enteo.
The exhibition “Sculptures, which we do not see” is dedicated to the creative artists of the sixties Relations and representatives of contemporary art.
Curators determine its as “a full-scale study of the phenomenon of” basement nonconformity “that existed in the Soviet Union in parallel to the official art.” The exhibition’s title is borrowed from an article by Academician and Nobel Prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, dedicated precisely to the sculptor Siddur and the need to preserve his legacy. The article was published in 1987 – then the collection of outstanding sculptor-formalist had to be protected by the authorities. No one came to her that in twenty years any further danger.
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