Vasily Bychkov said that the number of participants of the 34th Salon reached the pre-crisis level. Fielded 250 galleries, including participants from France and Germany. It is expected that the role of fairs will grow as reducing galleries traditional "office" expenses. This is understandable, because in the world. Interior design has changed - there were red carpet and other "cosmetic." But having said that is not all. In the future we plan to significantly alter the architecture and interior of the matter is puzzled. Catalog salon for the first time in my memory that were distributed on the disk, not a printed version. It can be downloaded here (8 MB) -
http://artinvestment.ru/content/down...13/catalog.pdf
From the Ministry of Culture stood Natalia Samoilenko. She told me that the burning issues import and export of a commission or working group, so that in the near future have a chance of relief in this area. In this area, really a lot of atavism, we on behalf of participants in the art market in the Ministry of Culture of the questions formulated a couple of months ago, promised to answer. Well, in general, there are calls market participants actively engage in discussions with the Ministry of Culture. This is such a state trend now. You would think someone is against.