4 April 2015 - 5 August 2015
We invite You to the ART gallery of Peter Voice 05.04.2015 to the exhibition of collective action "Kill".
The exhibition will be opened for visitors from 05.04.2015 till 05.08.2015 year.
Basil Ulrich was the most important part of the Soviet system of totalitarian subordination. One of the key figures of Stalin's repressions. He was a permanent chairman of the Military colleagues of the Supreme court of the USSR from 1926 to 1948,not having a legal background. He had been taking out death sentences at the most notorious cases of that time. Among those sentenced by a panel of Ulrich to be shot writers I. Babel, I. Kataev, B. Pilnyak, directed by V. Meyerhold, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, A. Egorov, political and public figures N. Bukharin, Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, S. Kosior and many others. On a separate shootings chairman of the Military Collegium attended and signed the reports personally. Ulrich and courts of special triples have become iconic symbols of time when the basis of the state court proceedings were laid arbitrariness as an ideology of lawlessness and falsification as a method of legal farce. These traditions are preserved in the work of the Russian courts in the present time. The courts are still used by the government as a repressive tool against dissent.
With the aim of attracting public attention to the problem of suppression of freedoms and judicial lawlessness, which had become the national characteristics of modern Russian society, the artists had decided to hold a performance on the grave of Basil Ulrich at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
In the promotion of collective action "Kill", held in March 27, 2015 attended the art group "Blue rider", art lab El Savo and ART (gallery Peter Voice). Society of quilted jackets by Oleg Basov solemnly laid on the grave of Ulrich execution protocols and reports with his signature. Role of honor with the hood of the executioner performed Lisa Savo. A laying ceremony was held under the melody of the Soviet anthem as a semantic sign of the indissoluble connection between past and present, played the accordion as a military musician – Alexander Saranya.
The public opening of the exhibition and discussion of the action with the participation of the artists will be held April 18, 2015, at the address: Moscow, Vorotynsk Street, building 2,korp. 1.