Igor Markin: ".. there is always time to talk about art .."

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October 17 - October 31, Museum ART4.RU (Moscow) - Project "Exhibition prices"

A year ago in the museum ART4.RU was a unique event - the first time in the museum space next to the masterpieces of contemporary Russian art came with price tags to their real market value. Wanting to know how do art for the people were many.

And then it came time for the next "Exhibitions prices. We have identified twenty-four of the artist, identified the three record price for each, put them in the hierarchy of the market value of art works of these authors, tracked the dynamics of price growth, the result of our research will be presented Oct. 17, 2008.
Where are the many zeros on the price tags for the masterpieces, in which names it makes sense to invest all that easy come back-breaking labor, and to be feared the young and inexperienced collectors - all these and many other questions will be answered Igor Markin, founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Mikhail Kamensky CEO of Sotheby's CIS.
Here for comparison are the maximum prices for specific names for the last three years: *
2006
Kabakov - 150 000 $
Chubarov - 60 000 $
Weisberg - 100 000 $
Bulatov - 70 000 $
Tselkov - 80 000 $
Schwarzman -40 000 $
Vasiliev - 20 000 $

2007
Kabakov - 4 056 $ 584
Bulatov - 1 825 064 $
Chubarov - 1 378 760 $
Schwarzman - 377 210 $
Weisberg - 365 422 $
Tselkov - 441 094 $
Vasiliev - 216 000 $

2008
Kabakov - 5 806 930 $
Bulatov - 2 147 624 $
Chubarov - 1 378 760 $
Schwarzman - $ 308 031
Weisberg - 193 000 $
Tselkov - 355 044 $
Vasiliev - 927 722 $

The lecture and exhibition opening will be held October 17, 2008 at 16-00
the Museum ART4.RU at Moscow, Khlynov impasse, 4

About profitable investments in the arts and current prices can tell you:
Igor Markin
Founder of the Museum of modern art ART4.RU
Mikhail Kamensky
General Director of Sotheby's CIS
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