According to eyewitness reports from the award ceremony, the Russian state prize for contemporary art Innovation-2010 has been awarded to Voina for their work “Dick captured by the KGB!”
Members of Voina (the war) – two of whom are awaiting trial on hooliganism charges – whitewashed the decoration on a bridge in St Petersburg last June. When the bridge was raised the erect phallus faced the local headquarters of the FSB, the successor to the KGB.
The work, entitled A Dick Held Prisoner at the FSB, was awarded the 400,000 rouble (£8,700) 2010 Innovation prize by the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow on Thursday evening.
The graffito was scrubbed off the bridge by authorities after a few hours but pictures of it became an internet sensation.
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