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LEFT: Advei Ter-Oganyan: "I demand to remove my art from the Louvre!"
The Radical Abstractionism is the series of geometric abstractions with captions from the Russian Criminal Code. The series was created in 2004 by Avdei Ter-Oganyan as an attempt to address the real life situations, when public interpretation of innocuous artwork, detached from the&nbs ... Read more » |
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LEFT: Avdei Ter-Oganyan. Radical Abstractionism N7. Caption: "This artwork appeals to forcibly change the constitutional system of the Russian Federation." RE: Article 280 Public Appeals for the Performance of Extremist Activity. Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The work N7 from the Radical Abstractionism series was ban ... Read more »
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2016-05-06
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The complete Radical Abstractionism series (2004) includes 14 prints. The idea of the caption for each work is based on a certain article from the Russian Criminal Code except for the work N3, which was created purely for "aesthetic pleasure." After Russian Federation arrested works from the series at customs based on its "criminal content," the artist proved the point that in today's world, virtually any artwork can be a subject of criminal investigation.
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2016-05-06
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2010 Counterpoint, Contemporary Russian Art — From the Icon to the Avant-Garde by way of the Museum, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France ... Read more »
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2016-05-06
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Christian Keesee Collection, Oklahoma City Art Museum |
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Art and Protest in Putin's Russia The Louvre Russian censorship is exposed to light L’artiste russe censuré se refuse au Louvre ... Read more »
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2016-05-06
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