/ world today news/ Some time ago, MP and former Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov was a guest on the Saturday morning show of Nova TV. In fact, lately he has been going around most televisions like some kind of pop or movie star and speaks instructively and wisely not only about culture, but about all pressing topics for our society: about the constructive role of GERB, about our wise prime minister, about democracy, the freedom of print and speech, finally stopping briefly at theaters and orchestras. Yes, to the theaters and to the orchestras, and let’s remember that some time ago, in his capacity as a minister, imagine, he said that they were “like a cyst in the taxpayer’s body!”. And, without undue modesty, he begins to brag about what great miracles he did for our culture as a minister, for the “Bulgarian Louvre” miracle, for the structural reforms, for the unique delegated budgets, which, among other things, led to a creative, personnel, moral and financial crisis more from the institutes.
Yes, there is no doubt that Vezhdi Rashidov will go down in history. It is a pity that the director of the Paris Louvre returned his masterpieces, which he sent without being asked, so the Louvre lost them…Now it is understood that he made a second similar blunder – with the exhibition of the Bulgarian icons, which due to his fault they would be exhibited in the Islamic Hall of the Louvre. Before that, he forced the state to pay him the rent for his personal exhibition in an expensive London gallery. And it was a scandal. But, of course, he didn’t care at all, and he continued to parade around the media.
In the same “style” is the activity of his successor, Boyle Banov, became famous with the “Hello- Banov!” affair. And he continued this “building activity” of his predecessor. To lead incompetently, not to report, not to rank things by importance, to lead a bad personnel policy, to continue the vicious practice with rigged contests for heads of cultural institutes. In fact, it has its origins a long time ago, since the time of Lambo Danailov and his deputy Ivan Tokadzhiev, also known as “Agent Kolev”. We have to thank the latter, as well as Rashidov and Banov, for the fact that at the head of our national philharmonic, created by the great Sasha Popov and led by famous masters of the baton such as Dobrin Petkov, Konstantin Iliev, Dimitar Manolov and Emil Tabakov, there is now one a musician of modest means, with two dubious diplomas from the private NBU, but resourceful enough to build his career on the names of famous foreign guest musicians. This is how most of the competitions for directors of operas, theaters, orchestras / as far as they remained after the destructive “reform” of GERB!/, as well as for museums, galleries, Bulgarian institutes abroad, were held in recent years… Almost all of them were manipulated by the ministers , their deputies and the directors of the relevant directorates in MK. And that’s why a lot was written and spoken, but…a voice in the wilderness! Recently, the scandals in our country flow like a river, one after the other, so one can barely understand and rethink them…
A similar scandal recently caused the art critic Yara Bubnova, a protégé of Minister Banov appointed after a similar manipulated competition for director of the National Gallery. She was the curator / manager and selector / of the Bulgarian participation in the last Venice Art Biennale. For this purpose, he spent half a million from the miserable budget of Bulgarian culture / the most pitiful in the EU – 0.5%, while before 1989 it was eight times larger than it is in a number of European countries now /. And what was that performance?
You can see it from the photos of the Italian journalist Paolo Codelupi. The comment is redundant.
An installation with empty cups from IKEA / purchased from the store in Sofia / in the Bulgarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which cost the state only BGN 500,000. Photo: Paolo Codelupi
More from “modern Bulgarian fine art” in the Bulgarian Pavilion in Venice for the same 500,000 BGN. Photo: Paolo Codelupi
Art installation is the modern name for such “exhibitions”. This one is with veal and hamburg salami, exhibited in the National Art Gallery with curator Yara Bubnova
And this is Yara Igorevna Bubnova herself and the closing of her “Art” exhibition ...the price we couldn’t learn…
And while the Ministry spends thousands and millions on such nonsense, dozens of cultural institutes, such as the Ruse Art Gallery / one of the largest in our country / will soon completely collapse!
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