In the next shocking action fluent Russian artist Petr Pavlensky burned the Bank of France in Paris. His picture on the background of a blazing building, posted on his Twitter page photographer Capuchin Henri, who filmed the action.
L’artiste russe Pavlenski arrêté par la police à 4h10 après avoir mis le feu à la Banque de France @afpfr @franceinfo pic.twitter.com/rGhzMMqhFp
— Capucine Henry (@capucinema) October 16, 2017
According to a local activist Sarah Constants, performance Pavlensky symbolizes the kindling flame of revolution all over the world.
«The revival of revolutionary France will ignite the global fire of the revolution», she commented photo Pavlensky from the scene.
Pavlenski met le feu à la BF :»La renaissance de la France révolutionnaire déclenchera l incendie mondial des révolutions.» VIDEO TO COME DM pic.twitter.com/E0DDzFULhN
— Sarah Constantin (@sarahconstantin) October 16, 2017
The actions of painter caused an immediate reaction from the authorities — he was detained by Paris police.
Pavlensky The Arrest. Photo: Marc Chaumeil/Divergence pic.twitter.com/NdVoMgworx
— Philipp Kireev (@mynameisphilipp) October 16, 2017
On the territory of the CIS, the artist known for his scandalous actions, the protest against the position of the Russian authorities.
In November 2013, on the Day the police, he stripped naked on red square and nailed scrotum to the cobblestones — that he wanted to Express his stance against police abuse.
His next action took place at the Little court of the stable bridge in St. Petersburg in February 2014, simultaneously with the protest events in Ukraine. Pavlensky and his associates had set fire to a makeshift barricade of tires and began pounding on the iron to mimic the sounds of Kiev «Maidan».
During the latter action the artist, sitting naked on the roof of the psychiatric Institute of a name Serbian in Moscow, cut off his ear lobe.
After that Pavlensky became the object of a psychiatric examination where he was found sane.
His last Russian event was held November 9, 2017 — the artist set fire to the building of FSB on Lubyanka square and calmly waited for the police, who accused him of vandalism. The action was a protest against the trial of Ukrainian film Director Oleh Sentsov.
France Pavlensky moved in early 2017. Local authorities have provided shelter to Peter after he left Russia because of allegations of attempted rape of the actress Anastasia corned Beef.
The actress’ surname is Слонинa, Your translator confused it with the word Сoлонинa, and, as a result, you called the victim of the attempted rape “Corned beef”