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Russian artist fixes his testicles in Red Square

Piotr Pavlenski , a controversial Russian painter has been hospitalized after nailing his testicles with a hammer to the cobblestones of Red Square in Moscow to protest against the Kremlin has called ' fixation ' and coincides with the celebration of Police Day . The artist has appeared on Red Square naked , and with his privates stuck in the cobblestones. The controversial artist has been watching his testicles motionless for over an hour, in a move he described as " metaphor of apathy, political indifference and fatalism of Russian society " "It is the arbitrariness of public office depriving society of its ability to act , but fixing his defeats and losses that nails us with increasing force the Kremlin to the stones , turning people into statues resigned to their fate await "said in his manifesto . After spending more than an hour still, the artist has been transferred to a hospital in the Russian capital. After receiving treatment for this artist will be stopped by the police , according to RIA - Novosti agency . A Russian police action considered as "normal for a mental patient ." Pavlenski thinks " society , now that power has turned the country into a big prison , allows arbitrary , and , forgetting their numerical superiority , through inaction about the triumph of a police state " in Russia. This man is not the first time he expressed his disappointment with the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On other occasions the St. Petersburg artist has been featured by hurting himself in protest. The last time was on May 3 , when he was completely naked rolled to a barbed wire in front of the building of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly in an act that he himself called "Body" and represented " human existence in an environment legal enforcement , when the slightest movement causes a harsh reaction of the legal system , which is stuck in the body of the individual. " In June last year , Pavlenski sewed his mouth in a measure to support female punk group Pussy Riot , two of whose members are imprisoned for chanting against Putin in the main temple of the Russian Orthodox Church . This time the painter stood in front of a cathedral of St. Petersburg with a sign that read: " Pussy Riot 's action on a performance of the famous action of Christ " , when he drove the merchants from the temple .

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