Michael Colhaze
Lenin, Mickey & Christ ; The Marat Guelman Gallery Moscow
While recently drifting past southern Russia’s snowy mountains and stormy seashores, I observed a small ray of light in the odious murk that has suffocated our unsurpassed Christian-European Culture. Namely a collective indignation expressed by a group of pugnacious citizens who thwarted another brazen attempt to disseminate this nauseous and highly destructive ruse called Modern Art. The clash came to pass in Krasnodar, capital of Russia’s Northern Caucasus region, on the occasion of an exhibition launched by one Marat Guelman, owner of a Moscow flea-market bazaar of the same name that peddles this particular kind of junk. ...
Even more to the point, you may see them for what they are, namely an undiluted blasphemy intended to vilify and ridicule those who recognize in their own Icons, no matter how simple or elaborately fashioned, a symbolic embodiment of Christ’s message of Love and Compassion.
Which is the reason why a fairly large number of Krasnodar residents felt sufficiently offended, took Mr. Guelman by his ringed ear and gave him a lesson in aesthetically sound attitudes. ...
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