Igor Markin - how to fade gallery business ...

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Manufacturer of plastic windows and the owner of the only private museum in Moscow ART4.ru Igor Markin - how to fade gallery business, about backsliding and return to a marginal culture
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How is the private museum and its owner in a crisis?
- So-so. The museum will respond to the crisis, of course. It would be somehow silly to maintain the status quo. In addition to the global financial crisis is yet another point - the diversion of interest on this topic, from art, I mean. I, at least. That is, wants to do other things, not art. Some like it in the 90's, when people were busy with the accumulation of capital, and art involved in a handful of enthusiasts - gallerists disaster. There is. Therefore, some projects do not want to do expensive, lush, with champagne, as it was before.
- And what will?
- The museum will be responsible for all these changes in the air, we will work once a week with the New Year on Friday. And there will be no draft. No exhibitions. But there will be an ideal permanent exhibition, will try to make a very good thing that we already have. Here now comes from the Hungarian collection, it is we toured around the world for six months. Here she is back, and we have it ukomplektuem space, past empty seats, and will be beautifully packed crushed the art room.

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- But very close you do not plan?
- No, in no case will not. Because the museum - this is a kind of capital, which a lot of energy expended. And to close - then lose it all. He will work to the public.
   And tell me how gallerists working in new conditions?
- I do not know.
- Do not know the facts - share assumptions.
- Well, I think that they, of course, it does not advertise. But they are all hard, of course. And I am sure that the more they will feel even more disgusting.
- All?
- Many. Because those gallery owners, who are living selling his art, having no other business will be forced to pay for the occupancy of a huge area for rental and sales, there would be no. General. Well or miserable performance.
- That is now nothing will be impossible to sell?
- Almost no chance now selling artists such art galleries, a plan. Do not type stars Kabakov with Bulatov, as usual gallery-artists, which cost 10-20 thousand euros, - what they are all there in Vinzavod doing. Either the price should be lower in times just to make it become attractive, or do nothing at all - suffer somehow, make it a show cheap. I do not know how they survive.
- And what will happen to the newcomers to our owners of galleries? Larry Gagosyanom, who had just then arranged in the factory "Red October" exhibition "What you have to? With Volker dilemma, which opened here Diehl Gallery One in the spring? That, incidentally, with the journals all of these will, with Art & Antiques - expensive magazine for collectors, which only in the summer run?
- Nothing good. I think Gagosyanu in Russia now do nothing. He got to the crisis, it will stop him, but he would await the end and come again. Nothing wrong with that. Gagosian just less affected, because it is not open anything. Hurt the ones who tied up for rent. Great galleries, I repeat, have been slow. There will be a good show. Good exhibitions tend to have sponsors, and their then-just as the new conditions obyscheshsya. In general, the activity prituhnet, and return all five or eight years ago, at best. That is, the gallery will go back to live in cellars. So.
- So, being 2000, well and 1995-1997-go would not?
- Well, I do not even know that was then. Although what they know. Was wrong. I think that after all by the year 1995, I hope at least we do not return. You see, over the past year or two, a trend towards a magnificent developments in the field of art. With no opening, the pump and the pathos of such colossal Kabakov exhibition in the "Garage". But what ever you look - ahead of any event on the previous splendor. Now none of this will. We'll drink cheap wine again, which is a normal person's mouth will not dare to take. Let's go to the cellars and drink all sorts of rubbish. That's what happens. But this situation will pass, every crisis is temporary. Year and a half - and all normal.
- It sounds optimistic.
- Well, not a half, there are two or three. It is difficult any predictions articulate. That's when the situation stabilizes, even on a bad level, then we'll talk.
- Do you think something will have to buy, to replenish the collection?
- No. I have suffered from the crisis. Even at least a year will not buy anything. I already do not, so pay its debts, for the summer auctions.
- Been affected?
- Well, yes, my main business, window plastic, no longer brings me dividends, people forced to lay off, reduce speed. Nothing good, in short.
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