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A přitom současné umění je charakteristické právě náruživostí a nevázaností, což jsou prvky, které se mohou plnohodnotně projevovat jedině v rozvinuté, otevřené společnosti, osvobozené ode všech forem útlaku; ve společnosti, kde neexistuje strach, co si o nás ostatní pomyslí, „co řeknou lidi“. Takové umění potřebuje lidi, kteří chodí na výstavy proto, že mají vnitřní potřebu vidět něco nového a neobyčejného, a ne proto, že chtějí dodat lesk svému společenskému postavení.
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So, the exhibition with a great number of bright, provocative, and new for Belarus works opened. In order to avoid problems the very next day the organizers had to send a wire to Raisa Gorbacheva, Mikhail Gorbachev's wife, as the exhibition was under the threat of closure. Serious people in costumes headed by Culture Minister came and disapprovingly nodded their heads. The artists were also prone to self-censorship virus. They were not free. So, some tried to withdraw several works of that exposition saying that that was not art but a reflection of the environment, in which they grew up. Ideology seepage was so powerful that in response to a proposal to do whatever they like they created an artistic council, a restrictive and controlling organ. Thus, dissociation, selectivity, narrow-mindedness, and resistance to everything new and provocative became apparent at that time; it has reached its culmination by now.
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