Organizers: Art Moscow has become a commercially successful
ARTinvestment.RU   23 мая 2008

Gallery sold half of the works presented at the XII contemporary art fair Art Moscow

gallery sold half of the works presented at the XII Fair of Contemporary Art, Art Moscow, said Vasily Bychkov, director of the company «Expo-park» - traditional organizer Art Fair in Moscow at the Central House of Artists.

«This year's fair was much better than in previous years. This was said almost half of sales and tremendous stream of visitors who came to look at the actual art », - noted Bichkov, commenting on the results of Art in Moscow, which completed its work on Sunday.

However, he noted that the specific numbers of sales this year to address the Advisory Board, did not express. «Gallery included in the Moscow Art experts believe it is incorrect and does not call numbers, drawing on the experience of the world's leading fairs», - explained V. Bychkov.

We know that from the 1,300 works on show were sold to 500, 70% of which belong to Russian artists, 30% - foreign. According to Mr. Bychkov, the success of the Moscow Art relates primarily to the investment boom in the field of traditional and contemporary Russian art, as demonstrated by financial success Christie's and Sotheby's in the appropriate bid. Also, the results of the fair market influenced the rise of the arts in general, and another round of interest in contemporary Russian art.

This year's Art Moscow finally moved away from showrooms and expanded in the direction of the relevance of the works and artists. «Time Shpalernaya hanging, when the gallery at its booth mix of different artists who have passed. Instead, it had adjusted and accurate exposition », - said director of« Expo-park ». This year the exhibition stands reconcile its 45 galleries selected by an expert council, against 73 last year. Bichkov believes that stringent selection of galleries gradually increase the prestige of art in Moscow in the international community and adopt the status of the event as a contemporary art fair, held the most rigorous and strict selection.

Photo Exhibition, Art Moscow, you can see here