Satirical audit

For the first time, the Count's Chamber decided to fight the vices of society with the help of art, says Andrei Abramov, a member of the organizing committee of the competition:

- The best works will be placed at the exhibition, which will be held simultaneously with the first Eurasian anti -corruption forum in the Accounts Chamber. We intend to set no more than 100 works there.

Andrei Ryzhov, chairman of the guild of caricaturists of the Russian Union of Russia, says that caricaturists often turn to the topic of corruption, since they are socially active people:

- At one time, I had a drawing with a “traffic police”, which broke up into two parts and at the place of fault had a fastener like a wallet and a volume in which you can put a bribe in ... Why is it bad for us to fight corruption? Because it has reached the highest level. Therefore, the very fact of corruption must be ridiculed, but, above all, of course, competent laws are needed that would not allow this evil to bloom.

- Do such drawings have a response in society, are they in demand?

- I think now they are not very in demand. If at the turn of the 30-40s, caricaturists in Germany began to draw on an anti-war topic, they would simply not understand them. Approximately the same thing happens in today's Russia.

- How do you feel about the fact that the Accounts Chamber holds such a competition?

- On the one hand, it's good. This means that someone there worries it there, although, on the other hand, it can be a certain imitation of the fight against corruption. In Soviet times, cartoons were a certain political instrument explaining to citizens how everything is good for us and how bad they have. Remember, there were such comparative carications? So the caricature can be an instrument of struggle. Everything here depends on who exactly is engaged in caricature. If he sincerely believes in what he does, this is one. If it executes a political order, this is different.

By the way, the modern caricature left the "crocodile" techniques of the previous years, when a specific wackhade was drawn, which had grain on the street - and its pigeons were exposed. Modern caricature raises global issues. We do not fight a specific fool, we are fighting with stupidity.

- Therefore, in the modern caricature there are so many generalizations and symbols?

- Certainly. This tradition was laid down by a dissident caricature, which had to go around censorship. Sergei Tyunin had a drawing in due time, which was missed without noticing genuine content. The drawing came out just on the eve of the next CPSU congress. There was a hall where the Burenchi sat in the chairs, and a shepherd with a whip stood on the stage.