Posted on 08/16/2015 10:29:40 AM PDT by marshmallow
MOSCOW -- Sculptures by a renowned Soviet artist on show in central Moscow were smashed after being denounced by Orthodox activists as "blasphemous"
"Delusional people came to the exhibition who broke several works belonging to the Manege collection, by Vadim Sidur," said a spokeswoman for the Manege art center by the Kremlin walls, Yelena Karneyeva, referring to the activists.
"Several sculptures are completely smashed," she told AFP, adding that police had come and led away the activists. The works were made of plaster and linoleum.
A police spokesman told AFP that he could "confirm the incident happened and that currently all the participants of the conflict have been taken to the station to write statements."
A well-known Orthodox activist Dmitry Tsorionov, known by the nickname Dmitry Enteo, earlier said he was at the Manege exhibition center.
"We called the police," he said. "They will close the exhibition for offending believers."
Enteo, quoted by Interfax news agency, had said the exhibition included an "indecent" depiction of Jesus Christ and was "dirty, harsh mockery of Jesus Christ and the saints."
The head of the nationalist God's Will group is a prominent conservative activist. He cites Orthodox values while picketing and heckling at arts events and protests, sometimes with a television camera crew in tow. This year he attempted to stop a gay pride rally in Moscow.
The exhibition called "Sculptures that We Don't See," showed works by Soviet sculptors that did not see the light of day during the Soviet period because they were non-conformist.
The show, which opened to the public Friday, included some works with religious themes including a crucifixion bas-relief.
Sidur was an avant-garde artist unable to show his non-conformist works publicly in the Soviet era. He died in 1986. A museum in Moscow is now dedicated to his....
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Unless this is sponsored by tax payer dollars, they have to let it go and respond to it with their own good art. Trashing stuff is Islamic behavior.
Maybe if we did more of this as christians they would stop making obscene art of our Lord.
Better yet, pray for their conversions to Christ.
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