Last year, the city of Yekaterinburg in western Russia held an exhibition of abstract art.
The theme of the exhibition is "The World as Non-Objectivity".
The organizers borrowed many masterpieces from Russia and even the world, which made the local people feast their eyes.
But I didn't expect that the original elegant art hall,
But it was disturbed by a big oolong....
Time back to December 7th,
At that time, two visitors were carefully viewing each work in the exhibition hall.
Looking at it, they suddenly realized how wrong there was a painting.
The main body of this painting is three "expressionless" people,
Logically, these three faces should remain unified, and all of them have nothing to face.
However, the two people standing on the side grew a pair of eyes,
Ah this????
Ah this??????????
These few small circles make the whole painting more comedic, not to mention,
The brushstrokes and drawing methods are also far from the texture of the original.....
The two tourists believe that this must be someone deliberately mischievous and destroyed the painting,
They immediately reported this anomaly to the exhibition hall, and the exhibition hall immediately began to deal with it.
The painting is called Three Figures.
It is a work painted by the late Russian artist Anna Leporskaya in the 1930s, which is nearly a hundred years old.
In the original painting, the three faces are "innocent", all without facial features.
Those two pairs of eyes were deliberately added by posterity....
The Yeltsin Cultural and Educational Center, which hosts this exhibition, borrowed this painting from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Although it is not clear how much the painting is worth,
But the Cultural and Educational Center insured it for 74.9 million rubles (about 6.37 million yuan) in the insurance company.
Even if it is not worth a lot, this is an absolutely precious painting,
In case there were three long and two short,
The organizers are afraid that it is not going to become a joke in the entire Russian art world....
City of Yekaterinburg
Fortunately, the painting is not a big problem,
The day after discovering this, the art exhibition "removed" "Three Figures" and sent it back to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The gallery also hired a professional art conservator to conduct a careful examination,
The ink has penetrated into the pigment layer,
But the saboteurs use ordinary writing pens, and they don't make much effort when drawing.
So the painting as a whole is complete, can be restored to its original appearance, and will not cause any long-term damage.
At present, the painting is under restoration, and the cost is expected to be 250,000 rubles (about 20,000 yuan), which will be borne by the insurance company.
Two months later, the police and the Cultural and Educational Center finally found out the real "black hand behind the scenes".
With a stroke of a large brush, the person who adds two pairs of eyes to the painting is the security guard responsible for watching the art exhibition.
The man, 60 years old, who did not give his name, was an employee of a private security company.
He was sent here for work on his first day.
It's a little boring on top,
So I picked up the ballpoint pen in my hand, and with two clicks, the figure on the painting grew small round eyes....
(Schematic)
Poked such a big Lou Zi,
Of course no one wants to continue hiring him, and the security guards have now been fired.
The police also investigated him for the crime of vandalism.
If convicted, he will face a fine of 40,000 rubles (about 3,400 yuan) and a one-year penal labor.
The treatment of security guards is also a twist and turn,
After the yeltsin cultural and educational center reported the accident to the police, the relevant departments of the city of Yekaterinburg believed that
The loss of 200,000 rubles is insignificant for the artwork, and the painting itself has not been destroyed.
Therefore, there was no need to file a case, and the exhibition party's request for criminal proceedings was rejected.
Yeltsin Cultural and Educational Center can not accept such a result,
Together with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, it also lodged a complaint with the Attorney-General's Office, requesting that the other party take the matter seriously and treat it as a more serious crime of "damage to the cultural heritage of Russia",
If the offence is established, the defendant is sentenced to imprisonment for up to three years or a fine of up to 3 million rubles (about 260,000 yuan).
In the end, under the pressure of the public and public opinion, the matter was filed.
Compromise on the charge of "damaging public property", and if true, the security guards will be punished accordingly.
However, the attitude of netizens is much more relaxed than that of the cultural and educational center.
Many people even think that the security guard is quite well drawn:
"I think he improved this painting a lot, and you can't raise the price because the artist doesn't paint the face."
"The painting is now completely famous, and the estimate is to be 10 times higher."
"It's much better now, and this security guard is a genius."
"It's so funny, I can't stop at all, good!"
Others showed their own "secondary creation" version:
"Goldfish eyes are the best"
"It's better this way!"
"This security guard is the one sent by God to make the artists and people who value this painting $1 million reasonable.
If the painting is worth $1 million, it should be worth at least $1.8 million after I change it, because I gave life to the three characters. ”
Of course, there are also people who criticize the security guards for being too frivolous:
"60 years old? I thought it was done by a kid who had just graduated from high school, but the older I got, the more mature I became.
I don't think the painting is beautiful, but I'm not going to tarnish anyone else's work. ”
In Russia, it is not uncommon for works of art to be vandalized,
The realist painter Ilya Yefimovich Repin's famous work "Ivan the Terrible Killing Son" was first cut three times by a mental patient with a knife in 1913, fortunately, the painter himself was still alive at that time, so he undertook the restoration work himself.
Unexpectedly, in 2018, a hundred years later, there was another drunk man who picked up a metal rod and poked straight into the painting because of the volt plus head, which not only shattered the protective glass, but also broke three holes in the canvas.
In 2016, there were also saboteurs who changed the Soviet-era star-shaped monument to the appearance of a big star....
There are lessons from the past here,
Now, the Cultural and Educational Center has installed protective glass for all the other works in the exhibition.
I hope that this exhibition that ends on February 20 will not produce any more moths....