{"id":1169,"date":"2008-12-11T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/the-wrong-art-wins\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:48:52","slug":"the-wrong-art-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/11\/the-wrong-art-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Art Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Bloomberg.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeers, Cheers Greet Kandinsky Winner, Painter Beliayev-Guintovt\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By John Varoli<\/p>\n

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Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt took Russia\u2019s top contemporary-art award, the Kandinsky Prize, with a series of nationalist paintings \u201cMotherland-Daughter,\u201d winning 40,000 euros ($52,500) — and jeers from sections of the audience.<\/p>\n

Beliayev-Guintovt\u2019s detractors in the audience yelled and booed when his name was announced, calling him an ultra- nationalist, while his supporters cheered. Last year\u2019s winner\u00a0Anatoly Osmolovsky<\/a>\u00a0led the protest, screaming, \u201cDisgrace!\u201d for several minutes. Beliayev-Guintovt was shouted down when he tried to make his acceptance speech. Guests at last night\u2019s ceremony included billionaires, such as Shalva Chigirinsky, an owner of Sibir Energy Plc, and\u00a0Petr Aven<\/a>, president of Alfa Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is not just that the artist is ultra-right, but that he tries to make an artistic career on his political views,\u201d said Marat Guelman, whose gallery M&J Guelman Gallery represents Osmolovsky. \u201cThis decision could hurt the prestige and influence of the Kandinsky Prize.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prize, in its second year and named after Russian abstract painter\u00a0Wassily Kandinsky<\/a>, aims to raise the profile of new art in Russia. It is sponsored by Art Chronika Foundation,\u00a0Deutsche Bank AG<\/a>\u00a0and the Moscow-based holding company, IFD Kapital.<\/p>\n

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from Bloomberg.com Jeers, Cheers Greet Kandinsky Winner, Painter Beliayev-Guintovt\u00a0 By John Varoli \u00a0 Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt took Russia\u2019s top contemporary-art award, the Kandinsky Prize, with a series of nationalist paintings \u201cMotherland-Daughter,\u201d winning 40,000 euros ($52,500) — and jeers from sections of the audience. Beliayev-Guintovt\u2019s detractors in the audience yelled and booed when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}