RUSSIA: CONTROVERSIAL RUSSIAN SCULPTOR ZURAB TSERETELI UNVEILS HIS BRONZE STATUE OF BRITAIN'S LATE PRINCESS DIANA

Record ID: 863385

  • Title: RUSSIA: CONTROVERSIAL RUSSIAN SCULPTOR ZURAB TSERETELI UNVEILS HIS BRONZE STATUE OF BRITAIN'S LATE PRINCESS DIANA
  • Date: 3rd July 2001
  • Summary: (L!1) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JULY 3, 2001) (REUTERS) MV/CU: EXTERIOR OF ARTIST'S WORKSHOP (2 SHOTS) SV: PRINCESS DIANA STATUE IN THE ARTIST'S WORKSHOP SCU: ARTIST ZURAB TSERETELI PUTTING FINAL TOUCHES ON STATUE; SCU STATUE (2 SHOTS) SV: PEOPLE IN THE WORKSHOP; MV/SV PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES IN THE WORKSHOP (4 SHOTS) VARIOUS: STATUE OF DIANA IN COURTYARD (3 SHOTS) SV: STATUE OF THE MOTHER THERESA IN THE COURTYARD SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ZURAB TSERETELI, ARTIST "What's important for the artist is to preserve the image, the posture, the plastics, the character of the model. And this is what I've tried to express here. And I've done this sculpture for myself. It will be exhibited at a big exhibition of my works in Moscow and then it will be placed in the Museum, as long with the Mother Theresa's statue." SLV YARD WITH VARIOUS STATUES
  • Embargoed: 18th July 2001 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Arts
  • Reuters ID: LVACPO6H1CQOGRYM5GF7X8AXPCLY
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  • Story Text: Russia's controversial sculptor Zurab Tsereteli has unveiled a bronze statue of Britain's late Princess Diana, which is to be placed in Moscow's Museum of Modern Arts.
    Zurab Tsereteli is best known in Russia for a series of controversial monuments, including a gigantic statue of Russia's reformist tzar Peter the Great. Now he has presented his latest creation - a bronze life size monument of Britain's late Princess Diana.
    The bronze gilded statue will soon be moved from Tsereteli's studio to the recently created Moscow museum of modern arts. Tsereteli timed the unveiling of his statue to coincide with the Princess's birthday, July 1st.
    The fate of a replica of the statue which is presently standing in the artist's courtyard is still undecided.
    Among other monuments awaiting to be placed in the museum are the statue of Mother Theresa and Charles de Gaulle.
    Zurab Tsereteli's statue of Peter the Great, which was installed close to the Kremlin, raised lots of criticism in Moscow both by the general public and artistic community who challenged its artistic value. Some opponents went as far as planting a bomb under the statue which was discovered before it went off.
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