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Quote from price forecasting AI at Sotheby's May 22:

There is a feeling that the work Savadov - these are things that will understand and buy in five years. Or when finally an effect "art tserukal" from active "Red October" and "garages". One day will come when the call is accepted, and savadovskoe Collective red "cease to be perceived by the public, like a red rag bull. It ceased to be a "red rag" Kabakov 1990, or Boris Mikhailov. Absurdism, metaphors and desperate opposition can hang on the artist a pack of dogs. Marxism de Sade, mascara, flags, coal miners in dresses, necro-setting - room for disparaging rebuffs. Making the impossible to please. Until then. Meanwhile, "Red Collective" - already in museums. This is a plus. But 12 thousand for the defiant picture, which the house is not the place - it is a minus. Opinion AI - did not sell. Still need to do a long way to confidently buy a serious thing for serious money. Finally - this is what he says Arsene Savadov about his art in an interview with TimeOut: «evolved for us to not become a provocation. In art, it never dies. First, among youth. Secondly ... you know: no matter how high was the standard of living, say, the Swiss, they have more of our people going crazy because they can not express themselves. Here, we have, there are formats of provocation, and society of such a rapid and multifaceted, that we are easy to implement. Provocation is part of awakening. The missile did not fly without burning parts. This is the concluding part of thinking on the level of most important task, temporary or eternal loneliness. Provocation - cleaning equipment, methods of ignition, initiation ».

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Is what I do not understand: does the contemporary artist to express themselves, be sure to use Soviet symbols? Why do so many authors, claiming it to be modern, relevant, contemporary and so forth, clutching at her like a drowning man a straw and compete, figuratively speaking, in his expressions of emotion? Can someone explain?