Marat Alexandrovich Gelman the 50 year old owner and director of Guelman’s Contemporary Art Gallery has opened a new art centre in the historic Russian city of Tver, a Stalin era terminal on the Volga river outside of Moscow. The centre named TverCA follows Gelman’s transformation of the industrial city Perm in the Ural mountain region into an art destination place, with plans to open similar centres in many other regions throughout Russia. The TverCA centre opened with a controversial exhibition titled ‘Russia for All’ by Dmitry Gutov and Viktor Bondarenko, depicting names of famous Russian/Soviet historical figures in a graffiti style along with their ethnic origins. Although intended to be a statement against nationalism, critics claim the inclusion of the ethnic origin only further foments nationalism. Inspired by Sophia Kishkovsky ow.ly/65hsL image source Peoples History ow.ly/65hN6 Art to help restore spirituality (August 28 2011)

Marat Alexandrovich Gelman the 50 year old owner and director of Guelman’s Contemporary Art Gallery has opened a new art centre in the historic Russian city of Tver, a Stalin era terminal on the Volga river outside of Moscow. The centre named TverCA follows Gelman’s transformation of the industrial city Perm in the Ural mountain region into an art destination place, with plans to open similar centres in many other regions throughout Russia. The TverCA centre opened with a controversial exhibition titled ‘Russia for All’ by Dmitry Gutov and Viktor Bondarenko, depicting names of famous Russian/Soviet historical figures in a graffiti style along with their ethnic origins. Although intended to be a statement against nationalism, critics claim the inclusion of the ethnic origin only further foments nationalism.

 

Inspired by Sophia Kishkovsky http://ow.ly/65hsL image source Peoples History http://ow.ly/65hN6