[Кирилл Сызранский]

In connection with the premiere of new film by Leonid Parfenov Pushkin Museum of Russian art collectors, and "Eye of God", I, of course, just have a question for the author: controversy about the new art a hundred years ago, and now - the same? Well, that is, Marat Gelman, we now criticize as well as at the beginning of last century, scolded and reviled Basil Shchukin, buying a work by Monet, Picasso, Gauguin?

I've written about it, Leonid and this is what he said:

«For all the differences between the specific features - yes, the same thing. Sergei Shchukin first bought a gallery of art, about which time the majority of the public spoke: they can not draw! Then the so-branded, even the Impressionists - Monet and Pissarro in Schukinskaya meeting. Now they - the last mass we understood style, but about the pets of Sergei Ivanovich - Matisse and Picasso, and even now hear, so I Namal! Shchukin also made the collecting feat at first refused, but then still buying the "Dance" by Matisse, despite the global sentence - say, this is the end of art.

In Perm no matter how you come - all of you about Gelman say about "Happiness is just around the corner" on the bank of the Kama, about the exhibition in the former River Station, the current Museum of Modern Art.

- Have you seen the letter "P", which he set up? What's this? (From the logs, which, as it were side by side - a huge arch on all parties in the form of "urban initials"). I had tried to persuade all heed the people on the show goes - argue, but walking, and before the palace, the station was empty how many years? And visitors taking pictures of street facilities, and you are what drove me there? And now I've come up with a compliment: how to you Gelman arrived, it became the world's two towns, where everyone is talking about contemporary art - Bilbao where the Guggenheim Museum - the main attraction and Perm! It seems they like the comparison. "

It.