The blue noses

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The Russian artist group Die Blaue Nasen ( Russian Синие носы / Sinije nossy) was founded by the Siberian artists Alexander Schaburow (* 1962) and Vyacheslav Misin (* 1965) during a New Year's Eve party in Moscow in 1999 . In the first works, they made fun of the cliché of the Russian artist as "a drunk man with a hat over his ears, a hatchet in one hand and a brush in the other".

Members of the artist group

The members are:

  • Dmitry Bulnigin
  • Vyacheslav Misin
  • Alexander Shaburov
  • Konstantin Skotnikow
  • Maxim Zonow

Story of "The Blue Noses"

The blue noses like to parody the “ trinity of today's Russian society” - consisting of Kremlin , art and church . Her sometimes absurd stagings with biting mockery of the church and government are repeatedly hindered by the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian authorities, precisely because her art "should be understood by everyone, not just the small circle within the art scene."

For example, the Russian customs are said to have withheld six pictures by the Siberian artist group for the last time in 2007, which were to be shown in the exhibition “Learning from Moscow” at the Dresden City Gallery . However, customs denied this news by claiming that no application had been made to the responsible Moscow customs office for the export of the images in question.

literature

  • Ulrike Heine: Stëb, idiocy, provocation? - The artistic provocation of the "Blue Noses" in the discussion . In: Christine Gölz, Alfrun Kliems (Hrsg.): Playgrounds of Denial - Countercultures in Eastern Europe after 1956 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22268-0 , pp. 317–336.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Blue Noses Group - the artist . the-artists.org; accessed on June 27, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Moscow customs censorship . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2007, p. 147 ( online ). "The blue noses" ensure red heads at Russian customs. In: krusenstern.ch. May 27, 2007, archived from the original on August 13, 2007 ; accessed on June 27, 2019 .
  3. ^ Taryn Jones: The Blue Noses. artinrussia.org, October 19, 2012, archived from the original on June 19, 2013 ; accessed on June 27, 2019 (English, press release from Russian customs).
  4. ↑ Сообщение Федеральной таможенной службы. customs.ru, May 25, 2007, archived from the original on October 23, 2007 ; Retrieved June 27, 2019 (in Russian, Russian customs press release).