Vladimir Is at His Summer Mansion. He Is Having Dinner. the Surname
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1 Vladimir er i sit sommerpalæ. Vladimir is at his summer mansion. Han spiser aftensmad. He is having dinner. Efternavnet Putin optræder aldrig i digtet, men her The surname Putin never appears in the poem, but består rammens mønster af de kyrilliske initialer VP. here, the pattern of the frame is made from the Cyrillic initials VP. 2 Vladimir er sammen med sin bedste kæreste. With Vladimir is his best girlfriend. Hun elsker ham så højt, at hun serverer måltidet She loves him so much that she serves the meal klædt ud som en hund. dressed as a dog. Den ‘bedste kæreste’ klædt ud som hund er Alina The figure of the ‘best girlfriend’ dressed as a dog is Kabaeva. Den olympiske guldvinder Kabaeva blev that of Alina Kabaeva. An Olympic gold medallist, ifølge den russiske avis Moskovskij Korrespondent Kabaeva was reported by the Russian newspaper gift med Putin i 2008. Både Putin og Kabaeva Moskovsky Korrespondent to have been wed to Putin benægtede historien. Tidligere, i 2007, blev Kaebeva in 2008. Both Putin and Kabaeva denied the report. medlem af Statsdumaen for Putins parti, United Earlier, in 2007, Kabaeva became a state deputy Russia. Rammens mønster får ansigtsagtige træk i for United Russia, Putin’s party. The frame pattern dets øvre del, men er stadig baseret på de kyrilliske becomes face-like in its upper section, but is still bogstaver for V og P. based on the Cyrillic V and P. 3 Vladimir beder en bordbøn, som en joke. Vladimir says a blessing as a joke. Hunden griner. The dog laughs. Korset og præstefiguren i øverste højre hjørne The cross and the priest-like figure in the upper right (bestående af forfatterens initialer, MK) er de første (made of the author’s initials, MK), are the first referencer i serien til henholdsvis den russiske references in the album to Russian Suprematism suprematisme og konstruktivisme. Cirklen øverst and Constructivism, respectively. The upper-left til venstre minder om tæppet fra de foregående circle echoes the carpet in the preceding drawings, billeder, mens bogstaverne VP nu er formgivet som while the letters VP are now bodies, in two erotic kroppe i erotiske formationer. Nederst til venstre kan figurations. At the lower-left, the element protruding den del, der stikker ud af (eller rager ind i) B’et – det from (or intruding into) the B – the Russian V – can russiske V – ses enten som noget skatologisk eller be perceived either as a scatological element, or as a som en overdimensioneret udgave af sexlegetøjet gigantic version of the sex toy known as Ben-Wa balls. kendt som Ben-Wa-kugler. 4 Maden smager herligt og ser skøn ud. The food is delicious and beautiful. Vladimir overvejer: Smager mad godt, når den er Vladimir ponders: Does food taste good when it is smuk, eller er det omvendt? pretty, or the other way round? Sikke store agurker de sælger i butikkerne for tiden! Such big cucumbers they sell these days in stores! Den sidste linje her er et direkte citat fra Daniil The last line here is a direct quote from Daniil Kharms’ Kharms’ novelle What They Sell in the Shops text What They Sell in the Shops These Days. In These Days , hvor sætningen siges, efter den ene Kharms’ story, the exclamation is uttered after one hovedrolle slår den anden ihjel med et agurkeslag protagonist kills the other with a cucumber blow to i hovedet. the head. 5 Vladimir har en vældig appetit. Vladimir has a great appetite. Når de sidste krummer er spist, er han meget træt. After eating the last crumbs, he is very tired. Månen og solen fungerer her som øjne i et The moon and the sun serve as the eyes of an omvendt ansigt. Næsen er logoet for olieselskabet upside-down face. The nose is the logo of Yukos, Yukos, der ledtes af Mikhail Khodorkovskij. I 2003 the giant petroleum company controlled by Mikhail fremsatte den russiske regering et skattekrav på 27 Khodorkovsky. In 2003, the Russian government milliarder dollars mod Yukos og fastfrøs selskabets presented Yukos with tax claims of $27 billion US aktiver. I oktober samme år blev Khodorkovskij dollars, and froze its assets. In October the same arresteret. På daværende tidspunkt var han en af year, Khodorkovsky was arrested, at a time when he verdens rigeste mænd. Yukos blev i 2008 erklæret was one of the richest men in the world. Yukos was konkurs. Ved at skildre Yukos som krummer på declared bankrupt in 2008. The rendition of Yukos as Putins kosmologiske middagsbord fremstilles Putin crumbs on Putin’s cosmological dinner table asserts som den direkte begunstigede, både økonomisk og him as the direct benefactor, financially and personally, personligt, af Khodorkovskijs retsforfølgelse. of the persecution of Khodorkovsky. 6 Vladimir ligger i sin seng. Hans elsker ligger på Vladimir is in bed. His lover is on the rug. gulvtæppet. She is working on her speech: Hun arbejder på sin tale: Woof, Woof, Woof ! Vuf, vuf, vuf! Perhaps one day she will become a minister, or a horse. Måske hun en dag bliver en minister, eller en hest. Gulvtæppet er en variation over det tjetjenske flag. The carpet is a variation on the flag of Chechnya. 7 Over sengen hænger Gud, for at sikre forsyningen Above the bed is God, to secure the serving of af gode drømme, sweet dreams, Og det udstoppede hoved af en journalist, Vladimir And the stuffed head of a journalist Vladimir hunted jagtede for et par år siden. a few years ago. Det udstoppede hoved tilhører journalisten Anna The stuffed head of the journalist is that of Anna Politkovskaja (1958-2006), en af de mest prominente Politkovskaya (1958-2006), one of the most outspoken kritikere af Putins regering, og i særdeleshed af critics of Putin’s reign, and in particular of his ruthless hans brutale angreb på Tjetjenien. Hun blev skudt attack on Chechnya. She was shot in the elevator of i elevatoren i den lejlighedsbygning i Moskva, the Moscow apartment house where she resided. While hvor hun boede. Mens Politkovskaja er den mest Politkovskaya is the most renowned journalist to have fremtrædende journalist, der er blevet myrdet i been assassinated in Russia, reports by the Committee Rusland, så fremgår det af rapporter fra Committee to Protect Journalists note that, since 1993, the country to Protect Journalists, at landet siden 1993 har has been the third most dangerous in the world for været verdens tredje farligste sted for journalister journalists (with numbers of violent deaths exceeded (med dødstal kun overgået af Algeriet og Irak). only by Algeria and post-invasion Iraq). 8 Inden han falder i søvn, stirrer Vladimir på sit Before he falls asleep, Vladimir stares at his wardrobe. klædeskab. He always imagines seeing faces. Han forestiller sig altid, at han ser ansigter. Klædeskabet er inspireret af det skab, der stod The cupboard is based on the one in Maxim Komar- i Maxim Komar-Myshkins eget soveværelse i Myshkin’s own bedroom in Tel Aviv, where his body was Tel Aviv, hvori hans krop blev fundet efter hans found after he committed suicide, on 18 January 2011. selvmord den 18. januar 2011. 9 Sover Vladimir? Forandrer ansigterne sig? Is Vladimir asleep? Are the faces changing? Nej, han drømmer ikke! No, he is not dreaming! Jo, ansigterne forandrer sig! En mund åbner sig! Yes, the faces are changing! A mouth opens up! 10 Hvad kommer ud af klædeskabet? What is emerging out of the closet? Smilende sokker og fjollede trøjer! Smiling socks and silly sweaters! Begge ‘fjollede trøjer’ kombinerer julemotiver med Both ‘silly sweaters’ combine Christmas motifs with portrætter af Stalin – én som snemand og én som portraits of Stalin – one as a snowman, one as a en storbarmet mø, der rider på et rensdyr. heavy-breasted maiden riding a stag. 11 Hvad kommer frem fra skuffen? What is emerging from the drawer? Saks, knibtang og strygejernet, gaven fra den Scissors, pincers and the iron, gift of the Zemblan zemblanske premierminister, primeminister, Ha’-det-godt-piller, Vær-glad-tabletter og en munter Feel-Swell pills, Be-Gay caplets and a happy IZH IZH-pistol med lyddæmper. gun, with a silencer. Velkommen, kammerater, tikker det gøglede ur. Welcome, comrades, ticks the clowning clock. Strygejernet stammer fra Zembla, en fiktiv The iron hails from Zembla, a fictive European state europæisk stat i Vladimir Nabokovs roman Pale in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire. While most of Fire. Mens størstedelen af Nabokovs bog består af Nabokov’s book consists of the perverted annotations forrykte annotationer af Charles Kinbote (den afsatte of Charles Kinbote (the ousted king of Zembla), at its konge af Zembla), er selve kernen et selvbiografisk centre is an autobiographical poem by the American digt af den amerikanske digter John Shade. Med poet, John Shade. With its nails, the iron is a next-of- sine søm er strygejernet efterkommer af Man kin to Man Ray’s famous Surrealist object, The Gift Rays berømte surrealistiske objekt, The Gift (1921). (1921). The presence of pills, drugs, medications and Tilstedeværelsen af piller, narkotika, medikamenter syringes here and in the subsequent drawing may refer og kanyler her og i den følgende tegning refererer in part to several anti-psychotic drugs prescribed to muligvis til de mange antipsykotiske medikamenter, Komar-Myshkin. But pills and drugs have also played som Komar-Myshkin fik ordineret. Men piller og a role in Putin’s career. Politkovskaya reported on narkotika har også spillet en rolle i Putins karriere. a truth drug used on presidential candidate Rybkin Politkovskaja rapporterede om et sandhedsserum during the 2003 election campaign which forced him brugt på præsidentkandidat Rybkin under out of the campaign.