He got up with a stake

Krasnoyarski alternatively remembered Ivan the Terrible and Motorola

The activities of the two most noticeable characters of today - Ivan the Terrible and “Motorolas” - found a comprehension in artistic actions in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Vladislav Gultyev erected his monument to Ivan IV: this is an impressive wooden stake, sharply honed and naturalistically watered with something red-brown. The stake is dug up on the banks of the Kan River in the city of Kansk, where Vladislav was born and studied.

The author explained his installation: “Inspired by the fact that in Orel they decided to erect a monument to the infamous Tsar Ivan Vasilievich Terrosny, I decided to support this, undoubtedly, controversial initiative, erecting another monument to him in my hometown of Kansk. In addition to a completely obvious goal, to ennoble the popular place of rest of the townspeople, this stake, as it were, hints to everyone that the times when they were killed just for the sake of pleasure, are not so far away. The baton of the struggle with our people was supported by both Anna Ioannovna’s bright memory and the mustachioed Veselchak Stalin. Agreeing with the installation of such monuments ( as in Orel. - Ed .), We silently approve of repression, torture and execution. The people who cannot stand useful lessons from their history are forced to repeat the mistakes again and again. In the existential plan, the monument symbolizes the internal rod, which should be of every Russian person, otherwise there can be no question of any spirituality. His elegant profile, directed clearly upwards, shows the desire of our people to glorious exploits and titanic achievements. Blood on it suggests that we will not stand at the price. ”

Vladislav told the “new” about the reaction: “In the morning I had all VKontakte messages, and I can’t write to anyone. I don’t know whether the authorities are suspected, but as for the reviews of ordinary people, to be honest, I did not even expect such support. I thought there would be more negativity addressed to me, and I am added to friends in social networks, barking. People understand that we are moving the wrong way. ” The installation, says Vladislav, so far on the spot, and he would have seen this as the best solution: “I specially did not clean the stake, take off the bark, it would be good in the spring he let the foliage. And he would become a tree - there is a chance. ”

This is not the first action of Gultyaev: last summer he, reacting to an environmental disaster in Krasnoyarsk, put on four monuments (six bronze figures) on the Central Krasnoyarsk Prospekt - Mira (former Stalin) - respirators and gas masks.

And another action “Against the heroization of the state of monsters” took place in Krasnoyarsk: a monument to Lenin on Kutuzov Street was transformed in front of the Sibstali plant management building. They put on the head of the statue panties with slots for the eyes (Balaklava), and an hatchet was inserted into a bright distance in a bright distance. “On the death of Motorols, this is how the actionist artist Itzhak Mengel called this creation and commented on Facebook:“ Russia needs new monuments. Today they need to be installed by all unknown Russian bandits and sadists in the Donbass, whose goal is to kill, rob and rape - under the cover of historical circumstances. ” And one more thing: "I just want to draw a parallel between the past and the present that the apple, by and large, does not fall far from the apple tree."