[Vladimir]

JM-G, Here is today Gelman in his diary read (galerist.livejournal.com). Please do not perceive as a stone in the garden, but just amusing observation.

Gelman wrote:

11:10 pm
  is this type of people who do not just do not like modern art in general, they are sure that it is in principle, can not please anyone. I have them like asking "Tell me honestly, and any pictures in your home, do not be so that the same artists that the gallery. One wants to live among the present art." They often come up with "rational explanation" why a completely sane person "pretending that he did like it."
Ilya Kabakov said today an interesting story from the seventies. Some foreign collectors, an important functionary of the museum, decided to buy his work. For this purpose, according to the rules of the time he wrote to the appropriate department MOSKh and put photos of work. Ilya immediately summoned to a meeting where the boss of the International Department of the speech is: "What do you think, why he is buying your work"
- Well, maybe she liked him, - responsible Ilya.
- Ha-ha. does not. He buys it for toast. He now you have to buy it, hanged at his home in Holland, invited guests for dinner and during the change of dishes will say, pointing to yours, so to speak, now, "Look friends, what do ãàâíî in the Soviet Union, and how well that We live in Holland, but not there. "Let's drink to it"