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The artist will be paint his picture with blood in order to sell it for $ 10 000

Artyom Suslov | 13.09.2008 11:44 | Culture

The artist and poet from St.-Petersburg (Russia) Artyom Suslov recently declared war to mass culture. He said that intends to write the picture using of his own blood and wants to do so publicly during the performance at one of the central streets of St. Petersburg.

The artist and poet from St.-Petersburg (Russia) Artyom Suslov recently declared war to mass culture. He said that intends to write the picture using of his own blood and wants to do so publicly during the performance at one of the central streets of St. Petersburg.

"The painting will be called "Uprising from the ashes ", and its sketch is now ready.
Blood is the symbol of life and death. Modern Art died, drawn in the ashes and now must
rise up" - he said.

The artist plans to create a work of epatazh less than an hour. He will be encouraged
by the atmospheric music and video, specially created for this action by him.
Eccentric fighter with pop-culture make no secret of his commercial ambitions.
He expect to sell his picture the same day on the world largest internet-auction Ebay,
with the starting price of $ 10 000.

Recall that the poet, painter and musician Artyom Suslov was the initiator of many
scandalous actions. Among them are rallies against "popsa", judicial action against
the winner of Eurovision Dima Bilan, spam attack through the lyrics Minister of
Defense of Georgia Republic. Just recently, during the conceptual performance
(the author - Dmitry Kremnev) he was buried in the ground, that symbolize the death
of modern art.

The performance will be held on September 15 (Mon) at 15:00.
Place: Arts Square (near the monument to Pushkin), St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Press-Service of the movement "POP-REVOLUTION".

Artyom Suslov