The main impression I was. Take a standard I respected gallery XL. It has long been cultivating interesting artists, painters, and her aged zabureli, gallery inevitably slightly bourgeoisified. Giant glossy photo performances Kulik and Monroe; ironic, but still expensive-looking electronic toys group Electroboutique, beautiful objects, Igor Makarevich, or group of ABC and so on. Even last year, all this can be positioned somewhere on the right flank of the center, I would say.

So now the context of fair "Art Moscow" is that with the same labor XL Gallery was at the left flank. The most avant-garde, the most alive almost. I do not know whether to laugh or cry here.

Read full lyrics Around the XL is better not to go. Around scary. Around rampant, as a deadly tumor, glossy gallery "Triumph" (five stands) and others like it. Without thinking we now have two fashion trend. One was before, but now has blossomed especially: huge, pointless, sexually attractive paintings and big photos, which I call for a "blonde". For such a blonde-art opened, for example, a new gallery ART ART, which has just a huge stand. This Partner Project Gallery has teamed up with the gallery Gertsev. The latter is still to be sympathetic to modern art was not seen - the owner, we must pay tribute to his perseverance, has always exhibited a very bad, nobody knows, and somehow part of the Spanish abstract painting. He continues to do so now, although his new partner Vladimir Frolov more versed in the art scene and, of course, knows what to do do not need it. But, obviously, the relationship with Mr. Gertsev are such that he can not at this point.

The second trend is much nastier. Here, the same huge and sexually attractive art has a distinct militaristic, revanchist, imperial, nationalistic tone. This art is not pointless, and it senses something and attract customers, although sometimes at a subconscious level. Works well-calculated seduction.

In the pictures Belyaeva-Gintovt scene from the film "Circus" - a film that translates, albeit in the form of stories, the ideals of democracy, fraternity and equality among peoples - moved to alo-scale gold and aesthetics "of national exclusivity, clearly related to the myth pangermanskim and its mystical overtones. Right beside the product of free time gallerists "Triumph" - "artist" Thanatos Banionis. His inspired hand belongs to the ultra sharp video - energy cocktail of military uniforms, beautiful eye and angel wings. Plus all this in polugoticheskoy-poluikonnoy frame and also with some handles, for which you can pull as a youth video games. That is all done the most tempting for the consumer. Separated from the "Triumph" "Yakut Gallery" shows militarist (and not anti-war, no) sculpture family Rukavishnikov. The hanging cloth near Catherine Rozhkov, with some ziggurat, in this context too, as a mark of imperial glory (we pay tribute to the curatorial talents of Yakutia: he cleverly bent artist, which is unlikely to suspect that makes ultra-right nationalist art.)

In general, as I said, an outstanding artist Alfredo Dzhaar (who, on visiting the "Art-Moscow" depressed), it's all because, after presenting the last award Kandinsky "many you have to understand that it can be."

As I walked around the fair, I was introduced to a kind of collector. He immediately asked me what I think of Belyaev-Gintovt, next to the picture that we just hung. I decided not to stand on ceremony and said that I do not like the fascist style and refuse to take it easy, ironic and "how to" not see the political content, which climbs from all crevices.

Collector nodded politely and said something to me immensely, immensely pleased. He said: "Yes, now many say so."

Oh, if it were true, my dear collectors! But if this is true even for a quarter, I feel in this our merit.

Then we'll talk with collectors of his collection, and here I opened a lot. It turned out he collects the classic 1960, and to contemporary art only eyeing. I allowed myself to give him advice and said that then is more interested in new art scene, look for talented young artists, try to guess which of them has a great future, support them and thus make risky, but very interesting investment of time and money because it is such collectors in the history. He replied that it was all from his point of view, the problem of a dealer, collector of anything so do not be able to and should just buy what he has beautifully hangs over the sofa, and preferably a well-known name.

Interest in contemporary art, so did the man today, has not changed its system of values, not keen on him to innovation, searching, critical assessment of reality and a sense of risk, which is what we call the word modernity. He wants to collect contemporary art, but not the modern way. And that's the tragedy.

Because, looking at the present "Art-Moscow", one realizes that the tragedy in full swing.

Vipov meanwhile no no. A friend drove me home, on the way we stopped for coffee at some very nice and very simple place. Audience in tattered sweaters extremely surprised (see above about the red dress and 12-inch heels). Then I remembered that outside of "Art-Moscow" runs some other life to which "Art-Moscow" does not want to pay any attention to staying in a VIP-fictional world. It became a little easier.

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