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Anatoly Osmolovsky
  *1969, lives in Moscow
 

The Monument to the Brilliant and Victorious NATO General Dr. Freud, 2000, urban installation

Anatoly Osmolovsky has placed a heavy military gun verticaly into a sewerage hatch. This absurd metal "flower" is for him a reaction to the recent happenings in Kosovo. He believes that bombings of Serbia by NATO is actually a personal sexual drama of the President of the United States, Bill Clinton; "in this sense", says the artist, "ten milliliters of Clinton's sperm make an equivalent to a couple of thousands of liters of blood of the killed Serbs". On the other hand, Osmolovsky is interested in the transformation of a familiar object (military gun) into an absurd "monument to the triumphant militarism of Freudism".

 
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