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Alexander Brener
Alexander Brener (b. 1957) is a Russian performance artist. His performances of note include defecating in front of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh at the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, having sex on city streets, vandalizing art work.
He was jailed in 1997 for painting a green dollar sign on Kazimir Malevich's painting Suprematisme. In the court case Brener said in his defense:
- The cross is a symbol of suffering, the dollar sign a symbol of trade and merchandise. On humanitarian grounds are the ideas of Jesus Christ of higher significance than those of the money. What I did was not against the painting. I view my act as a dialogue with Malewitz.
He was sentenced to time in prison, where he wrote obosani pistolet . In the text he explains his beliefs and summarizes his actions.
He co-wrote BUKAKA SPAT HERE , Tattoos auf Gefangenissen , and Anti technologies of resistance with Barbara Schurz.
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