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The people are against
Monuments, monuments, a small urban sculpture and other art objects in Perm always spoiled. In the pre -revolutionary - that is, before the Perm Cultural Revolution - the times of the vandals were guided exclusively by selfish or hooligan motifs, “jokes” or “to drink”. Now the spontaneous struggle has gained a new, counter -revolutionary meaning. The public program began, and contemporary art came out of the walls of museums to Perm. Several art objects appeared in the city, from the latter-the bench “Power”, the letter “P”, trashmen, green and red men. Simple citizens met them at best with bewilderment. Now, the city resists physically-it spoils art objects alien to it.
In parallel, methods of combating vandalism are also changing. If earlier for the preservation of urban sculptures, they fought administrative methods-Perm monuments were insured at best (for example, if someone decides to defile the monument to the “front of the front and rear”, insurers will pay 3 million rubles to the city). The new reformers of the Perm space are more cunning. For placement in the Perm urban environment, they try to choose art objects as resistant to damage as possible. Both physical and contextual.
Monument to Vasily Tatishchev
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Anatoly Ural
Installation date: 2002
Vasily Tatishchev is just right to consider the saints. At the monument of the founding father, Perm almost immediately after the installation rained up troubles. The townspeople seemed to take revenge on a man who once said that it was a degree here, and Permians now live here. Several times Tatishchev disarmed (stole the nuclei and broke the guns from his pedestal). And once, the attackers unscrewed a plate with the name and dates of life from the monument. Vandals, apparently, wanted to sell them for scrap metal. But every time they threw trophies near the monument.
Monument to Alexander Pushkin
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Authors: Vyacheslav Klykov, Mendel Football
Installation date: 1993
Even the fact that immediately after the opening of the monument, he was consecrated by the priest, did not protect the monument from the vandals. Over a few years, the attackers stole several details of the bas -reliefs - the staff of King Saltan, the arrows of Tsarevich Elisha, the Golden Cockerel and even the line from the fairy tale "On the priest and the employee of his Balde." In 2008, the monument was restored and all the disappeared details were restored.
Monument " Sorrowing "
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Yuri Ekubenko
Installation date: 1975
The monumental mourning mother is part of the memorial to the Pali in the Great Patriotic War. In April 2002, unknown people tore off a large piece of copper sheet (2 meters by 60 centimeters and a thickness of 30 millimeters) from the left rear of the stele. They were not even stopped by the fact that the fragment was at an altitude of two meters. Law enforcement officers then suggested that the monument could defile the homeless people who decided to sell non -ferrous metal.
Monument to Dr. Gral
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Alexey Zalazaev
Installation date: 2004
The monument to the founder of the city medical care, Dr. Gral, gently nicknamed the people for the absurdity of the proportions with a hobbit, also did not escape trouble. In 2008, attackers painted the copper vest of the medic with orange and green stripes. Because of the bureaucratic, the monument stood defiled for several days-at that time it was already three years as in the process of transferring the F. Kh. Gralya from the property, which established it, to the balance of the municipality. And various departments for a long time could not decide which of them should save Gralya from excessive kitsch.
"Rotunda"
Photo: Nina Tsukhishvili
Author: Alexander Brodsky
Installation date: 2010
The first Perm martyr from contemporary art was the “Rotonda” by Alexander Brodsky. The world-famous architect and artist gathered an art object from the old doors of the Perm River Station just before his personal exhibition at the Permm Museum of Modern Art. On the night of April 29-30, unknown people threw a canister with gasoline at Rotonta. The art object caused serious injuries : the floor was damaged, several doors were torn out and glass was knocked out. However, the Rotonta quickly fell and sent to the exhibition in the Louvre. From sin away.
"Power"
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Nikolai Ridny
Installation date: 2010
The bench of Nikolai Ridny in the form of the word “power” is established opposite the main entrance to the House of Soviets (now - the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory). Perm “power” fell in love , some people constantly spend time near it. And they leave bottles, cigarette butts and other garbage in memory in gigantic letters (is there a political gesture in this?). The initiators of the project from the Perm Center for the Development of Design do not hide that they achieved about this effect. With concrete Perm "power" you can do everything that will please - it will endure everything. However, just in case, we agreed with the city administration that the “power” would be more often cleaned (maybe there is a political subtext in this?).
"Red letter " P "
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Artemy Lebedev
Installation date: 2010
Red “P” - Perm's logo invented by Artemy Lebedev - many citizens disliked immediately. This does not bother the designer Lebedev and his supporters from local authorities: despite protests and indignation, they will soon put “P” everywhere. So far, there were only two of them-at the entrance to the Coliseum shopping center and next to the theater “Scene-Young”. The dissidents (clearly intelligent people acted) wrote the word protest on the sculpture at the shopping center with a black marker. And this word is "bad taste."
"Red men"
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Art group PPROFFESORS
Installation date: 2010
The giant red men collected from bars appeared in Perm a week ago (one sits on the roof of the small hall of the Philharmonic, the other on a giant stool - in front of it). Together with them, at the entrance to the organ concert hall, all of the same bars of the Love wooden sculpture appeared.
The authors of sculptures are not afraid of the attacks of graffitists. If on the white surface of “love” local street artists will write something, it will not be hooliganism, but co-authorship, one of the authors of the project Andrei Lublinsky believes. Like, the object will “grow up” into the urban environment and become its organic part.
The sculptures have recently been installed, so so far no one had time to inflict any damage to them. However, a call to conscious Permians has already appeared on the Internet-to unite, to arrange a flash mob (exactly like that!) And destroy the red men.
" Treeshmen "
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Art group PPROFFESORS
Installation date: 2010
Unlike red men, designed to decorate the urban environment, two-meter sculptures-ruins “Treeshmen” (three-dimensional versions of the famous icon “Throw garbage into the urn”) are practical. They can and should be used as garbage baskets. Perhaps that is why they did not cause special hostility among the townspeople.
The creators of sculptures say that the trashmen are "absolutely vandal -resistant." According to Permm Public Head of Permm Nail Allahverdieva, these compositions are good because they "absorb all the garbage and all the dirt that falls on them." These sculptures are ruined, like true men, graffiti-schemes will only decorate. Apparently, these “men” fought on the fronts of the Second World War. On one of them - a yellow man, that stands near the bench “Power” - the swastika has already been drawn.
His brothers-a pink trashman, standing next to the theater "Scene-Young", was even less fortunate. Last weekend, unknown art connoisseurs unscrewed the figurine of the man from the pedestal and carried away in an unknown direction. The attackers disdain the urban treshman.
"Walking men"
Photo: Evgeny Trushkov / Salt
Author: Maya Barkay
Installation date: 2010
A banner with 77 photographs of the green traffic light signals from different cities of the world were hanged on a fence at the Northern Dam on the night of September 17-18. In less than a couple of hours, a section appeared on the vinyl canvas. Someone literally ripped off his stomach to the man from the Moscow traffic light. The author of the project, the artist and photographer Maya Barkay is not surprised. The same thing could happen (and happened) in any other city in the world. So it was with her "green little men" in New York. Any works of art in an aggressive urban environment are being destroyed. And you just need to come to terms with this, says the artist.