тонкий
iN 2003, Six mEmbERS of A REliGiouS GRoup
cAllED “foR THE moRAl REbiRTH of THE
fATHERlAND” bRokE iNTo THE ExHibiT wHERE
THiS woRk wAS oN DiSplAY AND SpATTERED THE
fAcE of cHRiST wiTH blAck pAiNT.
Alexander Kosolapov
This Is My Blood, 2002
Screen print on paper
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Hot button: Religion
Fortunately for Kosolapov, he’d made 75 prints. Other, less
replaceable works of art at the 2003 exhibit “Caution:
Religion!” were also damaged by the activists. In the after-
math, however, the state chose to press charges against
the organizers of the exhibit for “inciting religious ha-
tred,” rather than the vandals. In 2005, This is My Body,
the McDonald’s-themed companion to This Is My Blood, was
also destroyed. This time the culprit was a bearded, ham-
mer-wielding fanatic who called himself “Leonid, servant of
God.” Leonid smashed the glass frame and then ripped the
artwork in two, refusing to let go of the pieces throughout his
subsequent arrest. Kosolapov, meanwhile, says he means the
church no harm; This Is My Blood/Body are intended as a
commentary on our worship of consumer culture. But he is
thrilled whenever one of his pieces gets mangled. “The aim of
my work is to establish contact with the viewer. If the picture
is destroyed, then that contact exists,” he says on his web site.
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