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The results show summed up the magazine "Spark"

In the basement of the CHA is located "The most beautiful museum in the world." It is worth clicking the icon on the touch screen and the white walls of the projected works by Matisse, Kandinsky, Munch, Kokoschka in full size. This is a collection of the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. Once Museum Folkwang famous for its collection of European modernism, but in 1937, 1,400 items were confiscated by the Nazis. Today the collection is scattered throughout the world, but the museum still keeps it in the computer memory and can be instantly "to place" along the walls of your favorite ghosts.
As usual, a nonprofit program of "Art-Moscow" hamming very fair. Of the art exhibited at this year's sale will create an ideal museum is not. The market has still not recovered from the crisis. 9,3 million earned fair in 2007, remain a distant dream of 2010 . At this time in the fair was attended by a total of 37 galleries. Their ranks have thinned considerably - the organizers of last year raised prices for their participation in "Art-Moscow", by selecting a specific method of resistance to Russian crisis. The first offended large galleries, which saw a 20 per cent of these allowances disrespect to their names and reputations. Now, a former banker and the largest gallery owner Vladimir Ovcharenko of the picture of Regina, along with his German counterpart Volker dilemma carpentry a new fair, which opens in December at the "Red October" and will be called Cosmoscow. said, there does not take all. Could there be a good place in Moscow, but no face control?
The main problem of the 14 th "Art-Moscow" - a loss of understanding of the consumer: who today, after the crisis still continues to collect contemporary art. Fair puts on new collectors and provide them with the conference, which invites curators from the Gagosian Gallery and the white cube and inertia Baibakova Masha, the daughter of the president "Onexim Development Oleg Baibakov and former galeristka. Just recently, she threw bored gallery business in Moscow and went to open a restaurant in London.
Right there, between the stands, walks, Marat Gelman. In the new image. Now he buys the exhibits for the Museum of Modern Art PERMM, which serves as a director. After devised Gelman fantastically successful exhibition "Russian Povera", the museum is only interested in works from the "poor" materials - scotch tape, debris, pieces of iron, pieces of wood. At the Art Moscow "with garbage problem - the rich still prefer the poor. Gallerists are still seen by nouveaux riches, greedy for fun works of art made of precious metals. Frolov gallery for the second year of selling great images - stacks of gold bullion German photographer Ralph Caspers. Last year, Frolov was already sold and sold. This year's sold again, the series still has a couple of prints. At this time the gold Caspers added another black caviar, bullets for Kalashnikov assault rifle and highlight the project, multimeter vertical picture million euros - neatly folded in a stack of bills on the 500. The artist says: the money of his own. Commercial gallerist intuition did not let down - the audience to fly to a million. Do not spend it, so look. The first print was sold for 50,000 euros. The second for 60 thousand. The third is already 70,000.
The number of tops "Art-Moscow" includes sculptures of Tony Cregg, China Herring and an absolute blockbuster - picture of the Chapman Brothers. It started with the digits 750 000 U.S. dollars. Price, seems to take into account and the picturesque ground - the work of Jan Brueghel, bought and ornamented Chapman. Earlier Chapman dorisovyvali watercolors and portraits of Hitler's little-known authors of the XIX century, but now they can afford to buy masterpieces. This postmodern reception broke the hearts of fans of the old masters. The audience at the fair compared the gesture of Jake and Dinos Chapman to act Alexander Brener, who in the late 90's painted green paint from spray painting a dollar sign on Malevich's "White Suprematism" from the museum Stadelik. Brener then planted, and Chapman, they say, bought the first day. Everyone has "the most beautiful museum."
Anna Mongayt
(magazine Ogonyok »№ 38 (5147) of 27.09.2010)