Prof. Dr. S.V. Zagraevsky
The congress of
or a feast during the plague?
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At the end of February 2003, Congress passed another of the Moscow Union
of artists (USDA). For those who does not track the vicissitudes of life
"post-Soviet" creative unions, explain that USDA should not be
confused with the famous Moscham
- Moscow Department of the Union of Soviet artists. In 1991, on the wave of
General division of the Moscow branch (now the Union of artists of the RSFSR)
became an independent organization and launched into a "free
floating" under the name of Moscow Union of artists, taking virtually all
property earned by the labor of many generations of artists in Moscow.
The property was considerable: three large
exhibition halls, four art galleries, several thousand creative studios, art plants
in each section (painters, graphic artists, sculptors, applied art, poster),
the House of veterans, the House of creativity, depot clinic...
in short, all that was required for the effective implementation of the main
functions of the creative Union - social protection and provision of Moscow
artists.
From what Moscow Union of artists "floated" to its Congress in
2003? Did his head Vasily Bubnov
(in the early nineties - Vice-President, in recent years - Chairman of the
Board) to preserve and enhance what was left of his "inherited" from
the Union of artists of the
Moscow house of the artist on Kuznetsk, 11,
leased and actually redeveloped under Souvenirs / gift shop, in the remaining
areas are only three or four art exhibitions a year.
No wonder - in 2001, the merchants tenant has reconstructed the "House"and now, of course, "tune" them.
Most of the Central office of the Moscow Union of artists - estates in Starosadsky, 5, where there were
considerable showrooms - leased to several organizations, including the
"lush" restaurant. In the evenings, a quiet courtyard with a statue
of St. George into a "Smoking room" for the appropriate audience.
The
only regularly operating hall at the Kuznetsk, 20 - also nothing more than a
pitiful remnants of luxury: in the Soviet times he was on the ground floor, and
now the first floor and the second half is ready (or provided by so called
"cooperation agreements") to a wide variety of organizations. Hall
now huddled on the second floor, where visitors drop in very often.
In the Moscow Union of artists have about 3500 shops, of which
approximately 2700 occupy artists-members of USDA, the rest are "neuchtenkoy" and rented out
to strangers. However, the distribution of the recorded "workshop is run
sections, that is actually workshops are out of control of the
Art salons (Petrovka 12, Leninsky
Ave, 99; Stroginskaya Blvd., 30; Sokolnicheskaya square, 4) were at
the beginning 1990s, along with significant financial resources
transferred to JSC "Moscow artist", where the USDA was a controlling
stake of 51%. It seems to be okay, but it was only the first step. Then the
Board of the Moscow Union of artists, made a decision on increase of the
authorized capital of JSC, and when he had to pay his share, "proved"that the
Currently JSC "
Lost depot
clinic, house in Ermolaevsky
lane, unfinished House of veterans on a street AK. Varga, the House of creativity in Tarusa,
Gzhel ceramics plant. Collection of USDA 18000
paintings in 1993 was sold to a certain Vladykin
for a symbolic price (thousands of dollars, although the assessment of the Tretyakov gallery the cost was several million).
In fairness, we note that the President of the Moscow Union of artists
in 1993 was still Oleg Savostyuk,
but Bubnov was his first Deputy. Famous stationery
castling "the first person or second person" can competently to
escape responsibility for any fraud. Now about the
same thing play out Bubnov and his Deputy (also the
Chairman of the painting section) Glukhov.
"Extreme" are now one, now another, but in the end no one to ask. Sometimes this "tandem" connect Executive Director of the
USDA Herman Zariankin, head of the "Association of service of USDA Levon Karapetyan (in charge of
are workshops), Chairman of the sculpture section Ivan Kazan, a few people from
their immediate environment, and in the "water" is so muddy that
group, which seized power in the Ministry of agriculture, with impunity
"catches fish in it" for the last twelve years.
And "catch" there is still that. Despite their
greater part of the property of the Moscow Union of artists squandered
(another word cannot find), huge funds held by the budget of the MOA and now.
Let's rough estimate, on the amounts involved.
According to the most modest estimates, the income of the Moscow Union
of artists from renting
But, for example, in 1999 the official budget of the Ministry of
agriculture amounted to 3 million rubles (about 100 thousand dollars), of which
95% went to the apparatus, and 5% - for social assistance to artists. In 2003
the leadership of the
But in any case we may conclude that in the 1999 budget by the Moscow
Union of artists took place at least $ 1.4 million, and in 2002 - about 1.25
million. This at least. In fact, the amounts are not reflected in the budget of
the Ministry of agriculture, estimated at 4-5 million dollars a year!
Where this money in their pockets they settled,
why not see them 6100 "ordinary" members of the
However, the "ordinary" artists - a special conversation. The
idea is that the election management and evaluation of the Board is their
prerogative, all the
It turns out that in the Moscow Union of artists, all members are equal,
but some, like George Orwell, "more equal than others".
And as the sounds in the Charter of the Ministry of agriculture grounds
for exclusion of members of the
The idea is that in the interests of "ordinary" members of the
Moscow Union of artists is the exhibition industry. Most of the Congress in
2003 said about the large-scale event in the Arena, dedicated to the 70th
anniversary of the Moscow Union. But actually this is
a good beginning was completely ruined.
Holding an exhibition in the
"Golden" time - on the New year as the one celebrated in 1962. But
for 40 years, much has changed.
Yes, Khrushchev yelled at artists and
threatened them uranium mines. I in no case do not feel nostalgic
for those times. But why do we never cease to
live by the principle "the nose pull - tail stall"? Instead of
yelling Nikita Sergeyevich - the silence of the media
and the empty rooms (huge crowd of artists, their relatives and friends at the
opening, of course, does not count). Instead of selecting office "socialist realism" - clerical personal responsibility
labels with the initials instead of names. Instead of political intrigues of
the Chairman of the artists ' Union of
And if in 1962 after officials vystavkoma broke even though "belotintsi", who in 2002 broke through the
absence of any public response from so unprofessional organized the exhibition?
Vasily
A. Bubnov! Artists are well aware, how many square
meters of property You lease, and how the proceeds of millions of dollars go
nowhere. So at least bring the money in the procedure room of the
The voice of one
crying in the wilderness? Unfortunately, Yes. That place and by the
Moscow Union of artists, and its section "blind persons" exhibition -
"mass graves" - with thousands of anonymous works.
And the exhibition "Art of
Nations" (February 2003) in the Central House of artists USDA provided all
the flow and direction, but completely haphazard. However, some
"system" in this unsystematic was present, but were it not for exhibition
activity, and to a desire vystavkoma flatter his
superiors. Thus, the exposition of painting begins with... five works by the
President of the Academy of arts Zurab Tsereteli (as well as the exhibition in honor of the 70th
anniversary of the Ministry of agriculture). Other artists have given to hang a
maximum of one to two. Even the most " Bubnov. But Irina Glukhova, wife of Chairman of the painting section,
was awarded the agenda at the beginning of the
exhibition, between Natalia Nesterova and Tatyana Nazarenko. Probably, otherwise as
"cronyism" this situation cannot be called.
And on the "Art
Salon" CHA (mid-March) nepotism took even more exaggerated form:
half (!) the exposition of the Ministry of agriculture was busy working two
sons Glukhov. In this
regard, want only to say, Victor, Your boys have a long and, like all of us,
life is not easy. Why did You sculpt of them followers of dubious morality, but
also teaches them to an unprecedented "exhibition preferences"? Not
always will You in the leadership of the Ministry of agriculture...
The Congress leaders of the Moscow Union of artists
talked a lot about the need for "PR" exhibition of the
No "extra" artists to the leadership of the
Ministry of agriculture is not needed. Too bad most of them can not refuse:
leased to banks and firms to multi-million dollar property, inherited from the
But most of all to talk about the enormous problems - this please: from beggars organizations now the press, the
public and state officials arrived in good time, to hear about the problems are
not interesting, as "unaccounted for" million-the budget of the
Moscow Union of artists't see.
And then - on the principle of "black sheep even
a tuft of wool": held at least this exhibition, put a "tick",
reported at the Congress - and okay. Accidentally came sluggishly visitor
looked at the picture and left. The leadership of the Ministry of agriculture
can sleep - no one will disturb...
Thus, today the
The answer is simple - in the hope of the workshop. But to dispel
unnecessary illusion, which shamelessly uses current leadership of the Ministry
of agriculture, will hold another simple calculation.
The
By the most conservative
estimate, the studios claim about 90% of the members of the
Let's count: today, in
2003, the queue length for the workshop is: 6100 - 2700 = 3400. Then enrolled
in all new member of the Ministry of agriculture will receive through the
Studio: 3400 x 90% : 40 = 76
years old, that is 2079 year. And every year, this period is extended, for each
of the
Some artists are able to
"negotiate" with the leadership of the relevant sections and get the
shop out of turn, but then for the rest of it getting pushed back,
respectively.
And it is a mockery of the
artists leadership of the Moscow Union of artists proudly calls "the
struggle for their rights"?
© Sergey Zagraevsky