Merlion
10-17-2007, 09:14 PM
Apparently based on an internet poll, people think this monster is a fitting monument to Boris Yeltsin who brought destruction to the old Russian order. But the family of course do not want him to be remembered as a monster.
The poll is mentioned in the second link below.
Boris Yeltsin’s family object to monument (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/17/wyeltsin117.xml)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/10/17/wyeltsin600.jpg
17/10/2007, Boris Yeltsin’s family has criticized plans by an avante-garde Russia art gallery to erect an abstract monument in central Moscow that portrays the late president’s career as destructive and chaotic.
The monument, lumbering entitled 'a black biomorphic monster symbolizing destruction and chaos consuming order’, has been tentatively commissioned by Moscow’s ART.4U gallery, a museum that specializes in contemporary art.
An unsettling concatenation of black twisted steel set on a plinth, sculptor Dmitry Kavargi’s creation was chosen by readers of the gallery’s website as the design that best encapsulated the Yeltsin years.
The museum said that the monument captured the disintegration of Mr Yeltsin’s rule in the 1990s, remembered by most Russians as a period of economic collapse rather than of democratic regeneration.
But Mr Yeltsin’s daughter Tatyana, once one of Russia’s most powerful individuals, said she would oppose any plans to place the statue, which has yet to be built, in central Moscow.
“We would object if the issue were raised of erecting a monument like this anywhere,” she said in a letter sent to Russian news agencies.
Although ART.4U said it wanted to place the monument in Lubyanka Square outside the former headquarters of the KGB. ...
'Monster' design upsets Yeltsins (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7048210.stm)
....Sculptor Dmitri Kavargi's design topped an internet poll conducted by art4.ru, an avant-garde modern art museum. ...
Yeltsin, who played a key role in the Soviet Union's demise and became Russia's first president, died of heart failure aged 76 on 23 April.
In notes attached to a picture of Kavargi's design, which took 2,924 votes in the poll, the museum writes:
"This is a monument to the destruction and disintegration... without which new creation is absolutely impossible. ....
The poll is mentioned in the second link below.
Boris Yeltsin’s family object to monument (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/17/wyeltsin117.xml)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/10/17/wyeltsin600.jpg
17/10/2007, Boris Yeltsin’s family has criticized plans by an avante-garde Russia art gallery to erect an abstract monument in central Moscow that portrays the late president’s career as destructive and chaotic.
The monument, lumbering entitled 'a black biomorphic monster symbolizing destruction and chaos consuming order’, has been tentatively commissioned by Moscow’s ART.4U gallery, a museum that specializes in contemporary art.
An unsettling concatenation of black twisted steel set on a plinth, sculptor Dmitry Kavargi’s creation was chosen by readers of the gallery’s website as the design that best encapsulated the Yeltsin years.
The museum said that the monument captured the disintegration of Mr Yeltsin’s rule in the 1990s, remembered by most Russians as a period of economic collapse rather than of democratic regeneration.
But Mr Yeltsin’s daughter Tatyana, once one of Russia’s most powerful individuals, said she would oppose any plans to place the statue, which has yet to be built, in central Moscow.
“We would object if the issue were raised of erecting a monument like this anywhere,” she said in a letter sent to Russian news agencies.
Although ART.4U said it wanted to place the monument in Lubyanka Square outside the former headquarters of the KGB. ...
'Monster' design upsets Yeltsins (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7048210.stm)
....Sculptor Dmitri Kavargi's design topped an internet poll conducted by art4.ru, an avant-garde modern art museum. ...
Yeltsin, who played a key role in the Soviet Union's demise and became Russia's first president, died of heart failure aged 76 on 23 April.
In notes attached to a picture of Kavargi's design, which took 2,924 votes in the poll, the museum writes:
"This is a monument to the destruction and disintegration... without which new creation is absolutely impossible. ....