Mamyshev-Monroe Vladislav Yurievich (1969-2013)
Do Russians want wars? (from the series «Russian question»)
1997
89 х 61 cm
Paper, photo printing, collage, manual processing
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Paper, photo printing, collage, manual processing

The title of the series, first shown in the State Russian Museum (1997), refers to the Russian literature of the XIX century with its desire to raise and solve sacramental issues «What to do?» «Who is to blame?» and so on. However, the serious humanistic pathos is deliberately reduced by the author and is interpreted in a series of photographs in a parody-satirical key, taking into account the «malice of the day».
In «Russian questions» the author was filmed with his friends Timur Novikov, Elizaveta Berezovskaya, Irena Kuksenite, Georgiy Guryanov and others.
As a fairy tale passepartout the author chose well-known variants of ornaments of Ivan Bilibin


The title of the series, first shown in the State Russian Museum (1997), refers to the Russian literature of the XIX century with its desire to raise and solve sacramental issues «What to do?» «Who is to blame?» and so on. However, the serious humanistic pathos is deliberately reduced by the author and is interpreted in a series of photographs in a parody-satirical key, taking into account the «malice of the day».
In «Russian questions» the author was filmed with his friends Timur Novikov, Elizaveta Berezovskaya, Irena Kuksenite, Georgiy Guryanov and others.
As a fairy tale passepartout the author chose well-known variants of ornaments of Ivan Bilibin