[syndicate] Monty Cantsin recevies gg award

[astr ëe galbiatta]

&nd many many bisous_kisses
to anna !!! many many !!!

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> I  would like to share some great news here.
> Perhaps you have seen already on the net already that
> Canadian artist Istvan Kantor known more as Monty
> Cantsin received Canada Councils's Governor-General
> Award for Visual and Media Arts.
>
> Of course institutions and journnalists protest at the Canada Council,
> also the National Gallery of Canada is nervous about Kantor's
> planned visit to Ottawa March 10 to pick up the country's top
> art prize. Institution ensure the audience that special security
> measures are taken, Kantor is going to be accompanied by two security
> guards at the award ceremony and at National Gallery's group exhibition as
> well.
>
> Istvan Kantor is banned from several major museums in the world
> for his destruction art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and National
> Gallery in Ottawa among others. Journalists claim that giving him the
> Governor General award is something like giving the Nobel prize
> to Osama bin Laden for his peace activity.
>
> Anyway, the it's great to see that Istvan Kantor's more than 25
> years of uncompromised avantgarde artistic work is rewarded,
> and that Canada Council defends its choice.
>
> greetings,
> ab
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