Private collectors is getting smaller.

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Interesting interview in particular - the second part (expertise, unit sales at the Salon, etc.) - fully listen to the audio versionshttp://radiovesti.ru/articles/2011-05-21/fm/2115
 
Private collectors is becoming less
May 21, 2011 19:14
Culture /showbiz

This year marks 155 years since the founding of the State Tretyakov Gallery. It is the largest private gallery, which has evolved into one of the most famous museums in the world. This date has become an occasion to talk about contemporary collecting. That is happening now in this market, and the difficulties encountered to collectors today, a cultural commentator Radio Vesti FM "Anna Kocharova interviewedwith a board member of the International Confederation of atikvarov and artdilerov Oleg Tairov and zamnchalnikom Office of the conservation values ​​Rosokhrankultura Yuri Godovantsem.

Kocharova: Good afternoon. In the studio, Anna Kocharova. And I am pleased to announce today our guests. It Oleg Tairov, a board member of the International Confederation of antique and artdilerov, collector with a great experience, the critic and director of the gallery's Belvedere. Oleg, good afternoon.

Tairov: Good afternoon.

Kocharova: And Godovanets Yuri Medvedev, deputy head of the Office for Conservation of Cultural Property Rosokhrankultura, as well as Head of search and return of cultural property. Yuri A. Good afternoon.

Godovanets: Hello.

Kocharova: This year, even in this month marks 155 years since the founding of the Tretyakov Gallery. It once started as a private collection, and today was one of the largest museums in the world. Therefore, we decided to talk today about contemporary collecting. And where today this kind of collectors, they do have, Oleg?

Tairov: Almost units remained.

Kocharova: And what has caused?

Tairov: This is due to the fact that the products are very expensive, and most importantly - there is no incentive for people to gather large collections, not in the mood to collect.

Kocharova: But such collecting is now regarded not only this right thing and the thing that needs to be addressed, but it is believed that this is just a good investment. Is not this an incentive?

Tairov: I have to divide myself all collectors buyers into three categories. The first category - the true collectors, have been previously collected at the last of his money, begged, extort thing work. There were identity, and it is all the oligarchs who have more money, they have the opportunity. The second category, I call them decorators who build new houses, apartments and fill them with beautiful things. Filled the walls, and that's all stopped. Therefore, here the market is very weak in this regard. And the third category, which is growing little by little, are investors who invest in stocks, so in other securities, and wait for the price rise. But now because of the crisis middle class has fallen dramatically, and consequently dropped interest in investments. There is simply no money in people.
Kocharova: Yuriy, you are observing this process a little bit from the side. And as a person representing the government, as you consider the market in this sense are still active or not?

Godovanets: It must be borne in mind that even when there was no United States of America, in Russia in the 17 th century has been the art market, has come from the Byzantine monuments in the previous century, wax seals, certifying their authenticity .

Kocharova: So here we are still ahead of the rest?

Godovanets: Yeah, like we really are now discovering our past. And the deeper we investigate, the more we open up some additional perspective, as we could in this sense, understand, and his place in history too.

Kocharova: And does it matter? Sorry, the awareness of this important place in history for a collector?

Godovanets: The fact is that when Oleg says that yes, it is difficult to collectors, it is because of the strap, which you suggested that the Tretyakov Gallery, Pavel Tretyakov - yes, that's what has already cosmic level.

Kocharova: That is, a level not?

Godovanets: At the same time it was understood that each of us is a collector - a collector of their ancestors, their descendants collector, collector of experiences, love, and some wealth. And there's like two extremes. First - acquire a place in heaven, make your own post-mortem, they say, happiness. The second - all the forces of the soul to put out on the ground to acquire some treasures. And these treasures on earth, sooner or later too, actually ...

Kocharova: That is, there can be combined.

Tairov: And how they be? And man, as it understands that the way he enters into eternity with its two parts. But he is a holistic totality and must appear before God, the Fatherland once. In this regard we are discussing this idea of ​​an ideal project - how to combine these two incompatible things and how to go down in history?

Kocharova: It's probably too complicated. I do not know how much each collector, who starts a small or even some more extensive collection to collect, it has set itself the goal - to make history.
fully listen to the audio versions: - the second part of the interview (examination unit sales at the Salon, etc.http://radiovesti.ru/articles/2011-05-21/fm/2115