The real scandal broke out in St. Petersburg around the exhibition of ex-officials of the Ministry of Defense, convicted in 2015 for fraud.
Evgenia Vasilyeva's exposition opened today at the Museum of the Academy of Arts. Hundreds of students and dozens of teachers signed under appeals against the exhibition and sent letters to the Ministry of Culture.
In a historic building on the university embankment, they also expressed their protest against what is happening, reminding, whose name is the oldest art school, and not embarrassed in estimates. The leadership of the Academy, not commenting style and quality of work, also considers the exhibition inappropriate in these walls.
Yuri Bobrov, Vice-Rector for the Scientific Work of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Doctor of Art History: "This is a protest against the fact that in the museum who is designed to store and study the academic artistic legacy, an art is exhibited, which is completely unacceptable in these walls. This is gallery art. Let him live as he wants. When such art moves here, a conflict appears between historical memory, our cultural heritage and this exhibition. And such an exhibition is perceived as the compromise of this heritage. "
Journalists evaluate the work of Evgenia Vasilyeva was allowed only in a strictly appointed time. Announced at 16 hours Collecting guests did not mean the passing of media representatives to the exposition. The security service strictly followed that missing in the lists did not cross the line of the top lobby. There it was possible to be content with red flying birds projected on historical sculptures.
The leadership of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts found out about the exhibition a month before its discovery. However, influence the museum, which is independent of the educational institution, could not. Although with a request to the director and addressed.
The rektakes also do not exclude that the organized exhibition Evgenia Vasilyeva is a kind of challenge the Academy, made after she came out of the wings of the Russian Academy of Arts last year.