Video: Aidan Salakhova “banned” at the Venice Biennale
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
Lovers of the high have gathered in Venice. The Biennale of Contemporary Art officially opens here today. This year, 88 countries will take part in the show, which will end on November 27, each of which will present its unique projects and its craftsmen. Scandals will probably not do without. The first of them arose even before the opening of the expositions.
Two works by the famous Azerbaijani artist and gallery owner Aidan Salakhova, who has been working and living in Moscow in recent years, were covered with a white cloth.
According to Artkhronika, this happened on the instructions of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who visited the pavilion shortly before the opening. The head of state saw the marble sculptures as Islamist: "Bride" - a woman in a black veil, from under which only her hands are visible, and "Black Stone".
Now a photograph of one of the "forbidden" sculptures - "Black Stone" - is shown on the official website of the pavilion.
According to the magazine "Snob", the reason was formulated approximately as follows: "the secular state cannot afford to imagine itself as an image of an enslaved woman of the East."
Meanwhile, in the comments to the article "Snob", the artist Yuri Avvakumov quotes a message from Salakhova herself, refuting information about censorship. According to this report, the sculptures were closed "due to damage during transport."
It is assumed that the sculptures can be seen later without the fabric when they are restored.
Russia at the Biennale is represented by the artist Andrei Monastyrsky and the Collective Actions group (KD - artists Panitkov, Makarevich, Elagina, Romashko, Hensgen).
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