Translated material
The spirit of the revolution
In Moscow, the Mayakovsky Museum is closed. A unique space permeated by the spirit and energy of futurism, which squeezed the FSB itself on Lubyanka, will be eliminated. In the near future, the re -exposure will begin - exporting exhibits and dispersing them at different exhibition sites. The reconstruction of the museum will begin in the summer of 2013 and will last until the end of 2014. After the overhaul, it will no longer be a poet’s museum, but a certain center of contemporary art, an analogue of the Paris Center Pompidu. Well, and a cafe, how without him.
The head of the capital’s Department of Culture Sergey Kapkov personally involved in ensuring the project. It was he who fired the former director of the museum, Svetlana Stizhnev, who did not agree with the plans of the Department of Culture, and appointed his protege - Nadezhda Morozov, previously dismissed from the Pushkin Museum for the trade union. The technical side of the issue sheds light on the true goals of the reorganizers. Kapkov - the confidant of Roman Abramovich, with knowledge, is claimed by Stanislav Belkovsky. And reminds of the passion of the friend of the oligarch Daria Zhukova: she collects contemporary art. Until recently, she did this in Maryina Grove, where her garage gallery was located.
About the fact that Marina Grove is a great place for thieves' Malin, we know. Manka told the bond. But is this area suitable for contemporary art? Far from the center of Moscow, but it would be necessary in the center. Temporarily, of course, you can shelter in the Central Bank of the CPPI. Gorky - the gallery moved there recently, but .... The Russian Hyde Park, invented by the authorities as a reservation for rallies and meetings, will open there in the spring. The neighborhood with the place of accumulation of city crazy adequate perception of art is unlikely to contribute to.
So the architectural monument near the office is an ideal place. But you need to “clear it”, he is looking at the root of Belkovsky. An indirect confirmation of his version is the fact that the collection of works of contemporary art, at least approximately comparable to the collection of the Pompido Center, is simply not in Moscow. Here is not France.
I believe Belkovsky. He not only “calls the folding”, but also has a reputation as a person of serious, respecting other serious people. To quit this about the loved one of Abramovich himself? To do this, you need to have solid grounds. Apparently, he has them.
But back to the museum. Few people know that the Mayakovsky museum is the third in attendance in the capital after the Diamond Fund and the arms chamber. Even the Pushkin Museum and, scary to say, the Tretyakov Gallery remains behind this indicator. It seems that the revolution as such is still one of the symbols of Russia. Somewhere on a par with vodka, space and street bears. And that's good. The spirit of freedom in a non -free country. This spirit, they, Abramovich and Kapkov, were planned to be broken (with whose permission, one can only guess). As long as it remains, perhaps everything, apparently, they decided. There is nothing to encourage all rebellion.
And, looking with their conservative bell tower, they are, of course, right. Rouncing, yes, very much a nest there. So in the late 90s, the National Bolsheviks celebrated their newspaper birthday there. A hundred Bashibuzukov gathered. They drank, arranged a party tattoo competition. I remember that the winner was Misha Hors, a student of Moscow State University and Sambist, the real grenade of the lemon was pricked on his shoulder. One of the museum employees, who then joined the NBP, helped us to make a nest.
It is interesting that a decade later the most powerful movement for freedom in the country-freedom of assembly-started again on Mayakovsky Square (triumphal). Where else? Maybe that's why for the fourth year the struggle in the framework of the strategy-31 has not ceased that the great poet himself “patronizes” it? Even if he himself, as in prison, is surrounded by cop fences and fences, but ... he is not in the first. The result of the struggle is so far, yes, a combat draw - neither citizens nor power are inferior to the bridgehead, but how many examples of such impocation are in our life?
The resistance fire supported in the square has also revived the once famous Mayak poetic readings. In memory of the rebellious sixties who read poetry at the monument to the poet, contrary to the will of the Soviet regime, our contemporaries gather there every month. The fact that there are many hipsters among them - it does not matter, hipsters are also people. Vladimir Bukovsky, the organizer of those, historically the first readings, is satisfied with London. I know.
In general, the great poet continues to excite the minds of people through the years. Apparently, therefore, every bastard about that so persistently wants to uproot the memory of him - to eliminate the museum. Our task is to protect it. Protect the spirit of the revolution. The first steps have already been taken. Join. Participate.