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Title:: The rape of Europe: Maxim Kantor on Putin's Russia (works 1992-2022)

4 museomag 02 ‘ 2022 Maxim Kantor, Brown Spring, 2016, painting, 200x200 cm © maxim kantor THE RAPE OF EUROPE MAXIM KANTOR ON PUTIN’S RUSSIA (WORKS 1992-2022) Born in Moscow in 1957, Maxim Kantor is a Russian-born painter, draughtsman, sculptor, writer, essayist and art historian. He holds Russian, German and Argentinian citizenship and lives on the French Île de Ré. As an artist, Kantor never joined any group or mo- vement, rather promulgating his own independent message. Already during the Soviet era, he became an observer of Russian society and a critic of its political system. For years, he has been working on a concept that he himself describes as “man towards society”. The history of his own family plays an important role in his oeuvre. He creates series of large paintings and drawings that are intertwined with his fictional written work, public statements and essays. MNHA holds several of his works, among them his monumental Last Judgment (2017, 325x270 cm). “A NEW FEUDALISM” Maxim Kantor’s statement: ”This exhibition, put together in a very short time in reaction to the war in Ukraine, brings together works that can be described as political. In fact, any huma- nistic art that addresses people and society inevitably becomes political. We live in a society that believed it had overcome war. Nevertheless, greed and a desire to triumph over one’s neighbour do their usual job. We thought fascism was defeated forever, but fascism proved very resilient. Works from the last 30 years are shown. I have long warned of the danger, observing from year to year how the proclaimed ideals have been denied and distorted, and how “conditional” democracy has been replaced by

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