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😀😀😀 “Buy vaginal sex, or wait for anal?”: the Odesa Art Museum bought a Roitburd painting depicting sex, but at first they mixed up the type of penetration.
Former Odesa city council deputy and museum figure Aleksandra Kovalchuk told the story of acquiring a painting by the late artist and former museum director Aleksandr Roitburd.
According to her, one of the museum’s friends offered to purchase a work from the artist’s scandalous series devoted to sex. It was an image from this series that pro-Russian Opposition Bloc representatives once used on protest posters against Roitburd’s appointment as museum director.
The museum staff decided to buy the painting as a kind of historical symbol of that struggle. Members of the Marazli club raised about 70% of the necessary sum, and the owner agreed to lower the price by several thousand dollars.
However, during the acquisition an unexpected detail emerged: the offered painting depicted vaginal sex, whereas the protest posters of Roitburd’s opponents showed anal sex.
The museum even began consulting colleagues about whether to buy this work or wait for the exact piece that had become the symbol of the scandal.
In the end they purchased the painting. Kovalchuk explained that the series was created for an exhibition against censorship, and its provocation was a deliberate artistic statement.
“We bought the painting. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. We don’t know if we will ever be able to obtain anal sex for the museum’s collection,” Kovalchuk summed up.
Oh, those museum folks, what clever schemers!
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