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can be found in museums around the world who sculptures. in. new york. and of course. there's also a producer a filmmaker and. my guest. is. his explosive. one of the most acclaimed contemporary russian. art school. she was expelled from school. she was subjected to.

the return of. political repression. the architects and builders of st petersburg today painting segues a bit into national museums he sculptures it all squares in venice some francisco new york in moscow. is our guest on spotlight today. this is essentially mr chirac you know and thanks for coming to our program and the admission let's walk down memory lane a bit as we all know that you were expelled from the soviet union the nine hundred seventy one also the streets you off the citizenship side what was your explanation

of what was your fishel reason for expelling you from the country. where you put in your rule since i was not one of the chosen people my expulsion was quite a complicated one. i was arrested and then taken to the kind of state security for a so-called chat. explained to me that i had three options. first option which was to go into a man to asylum where i spent half a year. now it was the also of clinic us which was an experimental clinic actually one of the most horrible wants as it was under the jurisdiction of the state security services. they tested new psychotropic medication on us. did help. my mom hadn't gotten out on bail as a disabled i think i would have spent three years there she was told that she should be expecting her son back no sooner than three years later and he says he would actually i wouldn't have the honor of talking to you today b.c.

of the usually people left that place in a state of deadheads to go straight into the hospital for people with chronic diseases. who would you feel when you took those medications know if you're well it's not that we actually took them it was different all the time i was in an almost twilight state when they said various experiments for example they would who'd had films on my head and shout out the names of western artists which with gross mistakes. instead of picasso for example what they would say. my sense of humor help me i mean conscious. so they would shout the names together with things like modeling the land followed by a bride lashes of like i was seated in front of a huge color screen with some stripes moving on it in different ways. there could be complete darkness and then suddenly the screen would burst with right if such were some of the experiment. don't you think there's something like that yes well

that's why when i go to france my friends advised me not to watch that movie because they knew my story though when i did watch it i found many similarities. so basically if they wanted to see creepy over your personality and your intellect . you see they try to catch us i mean the young people and to help us stick to the truth cough they first tried to crush us in certain organizations and read us. but them when they saw that you didn't give in a psychiatrist would give a cue if. the kid should be considered as if you were to push into western principles or not. your denial of socialist thrillers or something else you weren't a dissident that's such right but i have always protested against being called

a dissident you know no it wasn't like that i don't like it when someone says that she is a dissident dissenting i was actually involved in very simple things like studying russian icons but it was considered as interest and mr says though it was also into group there was a book called match his group written by an author from the german democratic republic at those it was a very distressing fascination i don't know if you know anything about the books but she writes a lot about truth of patient using very expressive characters and etc the main crime was my interest in a rented. says on sicily and it was considered a crime yeah even if you were interested in impressionist because they praise the buddha to ideology moreover he really want to. make it a pain to the naked and gay people so when you were expelled from the soviet union nine hundred seventy one. before we start talking about. the socialist liberalism that you basically denied as you were do you sanction the

soviet union which is now becoming very trying to special in the west its words fashionable in moscow and actual in russia people like that kind of warred that's. that doesn't make you said. you see i have never been opposed to socialist realism. on the contrary when perestroika began knowing the russian nature i was one of the first to write a letter to the ministry of culture warning them against bringing down the monuments all over russia and suggested preserving the ones that are made by some real. like. bill and. as works of ott. so if you know that people started to smash down stallin monuments and monuments of a different political leaders. but those were done by

some real. i actually seriously defend the school of socialist realism. because i had teachers like an amazing illustrator it was illustrations. to the truman rely on to come with him. the teacher was you know she was an amazing theatrical master. i have always admired from. so i think what happened back then was a big mistake. russia is known for its extreme decisions. but if you could solve its union collapsed it was tragically what happened too quickly. and immediately everything that it was connected with was declared very bad. well on the other hand it's well deserved when its. people also destroyed all the.

what they call terms you know it's in the old world. that's why i suggested not to denounce it so quickly because those sculptures were true masters of the school socialist realism. if you decide special order things which are clearly trouble again. the school of socialist realism world even if the world doesn't know about it yet greet a number of truly great. britain russia has all the rise to be proud of that in. that school. of law and let meet this a lot of. for instance in the distorted linnean hugging mickey mouse and the marilyn monroe kissing stalin. or an almost pornographic by comrade unlimited stalin on the top of a naked lenin with little girls there as well. it's a nasty takeoff on what was going on. on the one hand it might be needed but it

really has nothing to do with the serious school of socialist realism in. your story with a few thousand dollars it. has already be comically share. it with fifty bucks and . i didn't go to america i went to france. fifty dollars in your pocket when you got to france which was one hundred fifty francs at the time. was it hard to find your place you had to find in any local already seen the artistic establishment yes did you feel like no one needs you over there. my fate was a difficult one in the sense. that but almost nine hundred seventy won. it was a vision of mine it was held by did invest in his gallery and you know very nice a well known gallery going to my you're my old muse who because she was his muse.

his entire property. to some litigation but she laid her hands on all his houses. everything he had ever created in his lifetime. something of a lady's anything. but poor good out. of our own stalk if you use it right now. well we did she was in love with me and my work. came to france she saw me and gave me as a gift a small shutoff drum been here. three days later she king to the chateau with a contract for ten years even though i was an absolute good. russia today that is in markets you would never i was wise enough to see she was out to milk me. under its terms i was supposed to do as i was told. i had to give up my quest in the area of metaphysical synthesis i was only allowed two gallon scenes and still lives

because they were sold better than anything so on and so forth. do you mean you. refused to sign your contract. which you know i gave up the chateau de up when i returned the key and three days later after reading the contract i said to my dear girls in my wonderous creature my sweet roly-poly i'm giving you back the key. planted blue and dreams of us travelling in india me seeing the world and not for me. i want to exchange a plain cage for a gilded one. left for the great wide world to the screams about any crawling back in three days on my knees. for him she was yelling i was a soviet but not in the west jungle i would soon learn what it was like. but i said to her proudly it's precisely because i'm a soviet my pride is

a special one that i won't come back to you either on my knees or otherwise. you. will be back shortly right after a break stay with us. well . bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realm of. the future covered.

welcome back to spotlight i am now going our than just to remind you that today we're talking about all right my guest on the show is we should make. the shows that you said you had come to france with two hundred something francs in your pocket and you and your reach compared to your amachree scented you with a should get over your contract for twenty years but he declined all that and you would through the answer dark or so with what was left of your franks is that yes the states are you sure you didn't make it always goes or was it because of something green in your ability russian nature of five years i had handled some most strenuous and messy jobs a summit year old girl in the club i was

a menial work at the ham attach them and that implied that she did the dirtiest and hardest kinds of jobs that i brought it up with a look at us quip i was a hand to the city scrapyard surreal image with a pair of rubber boots on and a pitchfork in my hands the star i had to move restaurant and. so that eating house waste. so what i was handling those heavy speech after the first of may but it's because the festival made parrots were held to a palace where waialae and eleven guys were in charge of the palace square of what they do with it so it was absolutely out of the question that i'd be scared of hard physical work the most important thing for me was my freedom and one of the encroached upon the holy of holies my creative freedom which was my conscious choice after all i could have joined the artists union i could have made good money as a black and white artist but did you really feel your first encounter with me in the shape of that contrary to your really feel that you wore in the free world after

all that i do truly boast the freedom which the soviet union left yes of course the absolute freedom i was in seeing portraits of landing on a. everywhere you know still beyond that numerous as lenin for one thing and for another i knew fairly well that the conditions where i lived would just a pool and there was no heating the windows were smashed and hammered some plywood on and painted the walls as good as i managed. there was no kitchen at the well known generally anything. it was an abandoned me where i began my new life and i was happy i was happy for one simple reason because i knew that no one would invade my friend mrs without even a search warrant no one would drum machine my books drawings easels and letters at six in the morning and they knew that i wouldn't be taken for questioning with the word up read on it as it happened in the past and most importantly i wouldn't be

confined to a madhouse where they didn't get me with god knows what their bull's eye was walwyn and happiness. and where money was concerned i wasn't frightened at all i didn't come to us from the sky i didn't. i was a genius so you. know it's because you said i didn't. know i'm describing the frame of mind i was in shock that one coming. the other way. nor would i make a new shows a ball. and be just marking time the big problem with some guys because at that time we were all nonconformists and had the same status regardless of how good. they stick skills work was but when we began making it to the west became clear that some were not quite so good painters others are not so good sculptors and it's differences cropped up for me like

a knowing full well that if i had to take or annoy take it without thinking twice i even have an article entitled. hand i keep it in my. famous. by the way one of the latest project. based on. fairy tales spotlights. all the details. this fantasy world is coming alive in the russian. idea. the famous adduced has been cherishing it since the mind in six days the stream has turned into the biggest project that there were. has worked on since the collapse of the soviet union no computer animation or special effects on this motion but its unique atmosphere created shoemaking had to first make sketches for the one hundred fifty characters in the seventy eight minute. vision of hoffman's world is want to

be trusted the russian audience has never denied the chairman of wages in france. is the main character in the new cartoon during his lifetime he found refuge in which. work. the animated hoffman is traveling in the mystical world of his own tales need to make which is produced in his own imagination. this particular fairy tale for children is also becoming this drama something the rounding should escape the life. you've been working on for some time now on the small orange phone the book there is theodore amid a. fairy tale writer so many eddie as you call it you promised it would hit the screens in two thousand and nine we didn't see it any time soon. the problem as usual was now we're making a piece by piece ten to fifteen minutes

a film and then who wait for the sponsors should always wait for the government to shell out it was not mostly the entire project has been stalled for several years because the russian government collects the money to sponsor the project which is a truly that experience or what is a ballpark figure that goes into fooling third soon peanuts i don't even say how much it was really never let me know but i know the conditions we've been working in so little why don't you invest some of your and money spent that if it's way usually i have nothing but debts. i'd be quite happy for what i have in my pockets mash my playing. it's going to use teaching the not character in the marines key theatre. not only that stage five bali's also again. why do you like this german officer so much well. let me explain the song of a very jealous when i didn't come but possibly even a half

a set in what befell him with my actress model and when he fell in love with her. hand in marriage under the condition that she'd follow him to the battlefield. for two and a half years my mother served with my father's cavalry division it was during the war during the war. but when your humble servant was conceived to the rule of cannons and the time came for my mother to give birth i was sent to moscow where i was born. after my birth mother again went to join father taking me along and we followed the division with the baggage train and thus reached the county's barry today's a kaliningrad where i grew up. at the. beginning. my father was the military commander after cunningsburgh became kaliningrad and the germans were removed my father was sent for further service to saxony. he grew up

in germany till nine hundred fifty eight. my mother a well educated person was fond of the german romantics. and it was the german dramatics writings. of the fairy tales influence in my mind. not the brothers. grimm brothers to their not quite in the romantic category well fairytales are quite cruel. there is little romanticism in them and much fantasy. you handle many productions including in years a theatrical designer. what is your attitude more than music you seem to be a man who'd rather you know something composed in our day our age or would you. more than music there's a stylistic vice. there. you know you are not quite right there

because my second marrying skill the magic cannot continue as an elaborate as it were not correct. it is an act it it why. not cracka became the not correct they were several choreographers that attempted to fit it into a tchaikovsky school but most of it was in a variety topher that was illegible in each stood a story of the prince's spittal a part of the story of the magic of not a cracker to what he had decided to make a new scenario and i wrote a new libretto. even before i asked a friend of my youth is in a very good we have a hard poser in the positive sense of the word sergei slim's. try to score to my libretto for his wally but the more. system some unimaginable sounds and.

i simply didn't know it. was like me secured for not writing all the right way. when you were made an appearance in moscow i mean those with children people started saying that she was not a nice. supposed to give people education. here really believe in this. week or are you more support you for all the art for art's sake approach. he wants. to read. they would not have been such tyrants. the truth is it's a nice phrase and an interesting one. to sometimes say that change mankind in change some individual people. more interested. but cannot position itself is a sort of messiah. and i don't think of myself as

a missionary. i think that we do things that are required by the present hasa saya to live in. by society or yourself. but not without tot you know there were times when i was painted at night and worked as a menial work enjoying the time clearing snow i knew for sure that my paintings would not be exhibited and would not make any money and i could not and still cannot live without it as a real artist. thank you thank you very much and just a reminder that. world renowned artist was my guest on this show today and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your lights or you have some in the minds who you think. that's it for now we'll be back tomorrow with more first and comments on what's going on in and out until then. take.

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