exhibition by Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami) in Versailles, scheduled for autumn this year, under threat. In protest against her were made by the Organization of Coordination de la Défense de Versailles (CDV), established back in 2008 when the castle were going to hold an exhibition of Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons). then "defend" Versailles failed Koons exhibition was held .

Now, CDV is going to take revenge and to stop that, according to the protesters, is a "real" murder "of our heritage, our artistic identity and the most holy in our culture." Such exhibitions CDV sees as a direct consequence of globalization and Americanization, and believes that they are the temple of the cultural heritage of France lowly aesthetics and dictated primarily by the interests of commercial benefit.

However, the president of Versailles, Jean- Ayyagon Jacques (Jean-Jacques Aillagon) said that the protests mostly come from the extreme right-wing circles, nostalgic for the pre-revolutionary France.

protesters supports Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma,, a direct descendant of Louis XIV. Together they want to stop the invasion of locking the Sun King. SDV cause unexpected legal argument: the castle is the intellectual property of its "author" - Louis XIV, so copyright law prohibits modifying its product. Contrary to such logical constructions is that the Versailles castle now public institution belonging to the French people, and it oversees the Ministry of Culture.

main sponsor of the planned event - Qatar Museums Authority - the organization that manages the three national museums, none of which are not works of modern art. However, the Qatari royal family, headed by the Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani) - a passionate collector of contemporary art. In particular, it Al-Thani, in 2007 acquired an installation by Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst) «Sleeping spring" for 9 , 7 million pounds (19,3 million dollars), thus giving the work status of the most expensive in the world (from all that has been sold at auction) works of art of living artists (on top of the rankings work lasted about four months from July to November 2007. - AI. ). It is not known whether there is a collection of contemporary art of the Emir al-Thani, works by Takashi Murakami.

The castle and gardens of Versailles are planning to show the 22 works of Murakami, 11 of which were made specifically for the exhibition. Among the sculptures, paintings, installations will be psychedelic floral sculpture "The Flower of Matangi. Organizers stress that the exhibition will include works of Murakami's not pornographic. However, this does not prevent the organization of Versailles mon amour («Versailles, my love") give the example of these works as an argument against the exhibition.

Despite the outrage lovers of classical art, museum director Aylagon considers similar exhibition an interesting experiment. It's like a meeting between two celebrities - Japanese artist Murakami and Versailles. And not the fact that they are so very different.

Opening Takashi Murakami is scheduled for September 12, 2010.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru