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Konstantin Sutyagin, artist: I, you know what annoys in art export - that it is precisely the claim to national sounding - this is what the West and perceived as "Russian Art". Given that the local front, for example, such things are not progressing. Its a demanding asking, sharper, see - and for a foreign context, such a simplistic pop quite normal, deeper, and they do not understand.

For example, painter Oscar Rabin - is now in the Tretyakov Gallery is his personal exhibition. The author has thirty years living in Paris at the Place Beaubourg, in the heart of where people are having fun - and paints in her studio barbed wire, a bottle of vodka, the newspaper Pravda and Soviet passport. As the Arbat for foreigners - hats with earflaps, balalaika and busts of Lenin. Very deep.

Given that another artist, his contemporary, who also lived in Paris - beautiful Mikhail Roginsky - was not quite need the European public. Because it is too complicated. Some Khrushchev, people in fur hats, stop, queue ... Well, okay it would have been condemned totalitarianism, humor about socialism - so in fact no, not funny ... It seems that this five-storey Khrushchev drawn even with love and affection ... As if he even is sympathetic to the people going to the factory?! I do not really consider them as hapless losers?! Is this could be? What did he mean by that?!

And the powerful deep artist was quite in demand "sophisticated European intellectuals." On the other hand has long been his paintings began to appear in Russia, and without much pushing, no art-technology - because it is too clear to us, his love is so clear to us that ugliness-moth and the people who have lived here a life and do not ask for it no special privileges and status. It turned out that Roginskii his paintings first managed to create not criticism, and epic. But it is only understandable to her. On the export does not work.

Dmitry RESINS, art columnist for "The News": In my opinion, the fact is that the aforementioned "sophisticated European intellectualism" (and not only in Europe) too openly put to the service of business interests - in this case, the art business. The question is not whether someone from the art that it is able to understand, but in fact it suited their concept as a trend. If you fall into excessive depth, you begin to perceive certain phenomena of art in all their complexity - then quickly fall out of the format. Actually, for this reason, in general prohibitively have a stable system of views, so you will not keep pace with the twists conditions.

The true manifestation of the national mentality are classified as "inflexible" artistic qualities that are difficult adapted to the needs of the average consumer. In my opinion, the example of Rabin and Roginskii says just this: the first is easy to build in the existing international cliche, the second should bother explaining to the public that she heard not really ready. Still, the intellectual power of the lobby is not infinite, you should not exaggerate it. Work Roginsky can stand up for themselves, contact with them in some of spectators is directly - and not only in Russian. Suffice it to several precedents, several high-profile purchases, and market conditions in relation to the heritage Roginsky can change for the better. Then, and intelligent services of the plot will become an avalanche character.

Fortunately, some internal resources of artistic works are able to overcome the limits prescribed trend. (c)
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