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Daniel Tamplon
Gallery Daniel Templon, member of the advisory board of Art Basel
Why is not Russian Art Basel galleries? It's very simple: you do not have the contemporary art market. And there is no market because there is no serious gallery that truly works with artists. Not just a store that sells art, and promotes, the organization of exhibitions, work with museums and curators, publication of books, monographs ... I tripled over the past decades has been in Russia and did not find any major galleries. Hope filed gallery Stella Kesaevoy, but it turned into a fund. To participate in Art Basel are applying about 1 thousand galleries, and places - 270. From someone should give up. Do not go through the gallery, in an asset that is not at least a dozen well-known artists. To participate in Art Basel to work from 20 artists, offering little-known names, develop, solidify the market. Today, apart from the classics such as Kabakov and Bulatov, you will not find a Russian artists with big names, especially the generation of 30-40-year olds. Just because the galleries are not doing their "unwinding". - SS
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