Author: Ksenia Semenova
Joseph Backstein: Why not take Russian art in Miami
Curator of many Moscow Biennale Joseph Backstein about the fair Art Basel Miami Beach, on the parallel exhibitions and how to make Russian gallery owners in the program became more
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At the largest U.S. contemporary art fair in Miami, thousands of participants. Galleries from America, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, China, Korea, and quite a bit - from Russia. On the main floor of Art Basel Miami is represented only by the gallery "Regina" with the works of Sergei Bratkova, Paul Pepperstein, Stas Volyazlovskiy and Erwin Wurm, and then immediately from the two cities - Moscow and London. At the NADA Art Fair, a parallel fair of smaller, there is a Moscow GMG Gallery, which displays the work of Anton Ginzburg, Kazhdan, Xenia Peretrukhina. According to curator Andrew Parschikova, it is generally the first case, when the Russian took a gallery at the fair NADA.
Ksenia Semenova :"..... I asked Joseph Backstein, art historian, critic, but more importantly, permanent curator of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, why are so few Russian galleries. "Riddle, a riddle, - he says - many try, they do not take . Still, Russian art is different in that it, as it turns out, much less integrated into international structures, even worse than Eastern Europe. We have some other ...".
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