Contemporary Art at the Exhibition of Fine Arts
ARTinvestment.RU   30 мая 2008

In Manezh passes V Moscow International Salon of Fine Arts

In Manezh passes V Moscow International Salon of Fine Arts. It has become commonplace that, in addition to jewelry and antiques are sold and modern art. Modern Art, is one of the fine, inspect IRINA Kommersant-KULYK ( Commersant ).

Although the interior has become more and more open to contemporary art, this exhibition in Manezh hardly admirers of modern art offers some revelations. Treasure like Francis Bacon, who in past years showed glorified Gallery Marlborough, Bill Viola, who are being brought Parisian gallery Luc Belier, or россыпи contemporary stars such as Pierre and Gilles, Jean-Michel Basque and China Herringa at Jerome de Noirmont, this cabin is not . Most contemporary art galleries are more or less the salon, the commercial wing as if to fill the empty space on the stands, where the main products are small works of classics of modernism. Thus, on the stand in Paris Bouquinerie de l `Institut huge canvases immigrant Yuri Cooper for € 50-60 thousand together with the more valuable, although more modest in size graphics Matisse and Picasso. But on the stand Frankfurt Die Galerie especially notice the work of contemporary German follower of pop art Heiner Meyer (the most expensive of which costs € 9600) or a reminder of the new St. Petersburg academism psevdoantichnaya ruinirovannaya bronze head of a Polish sculptor Igor Mitoraya (€ 195 thousand), but the most valuable find, again, the work of modernists such as a graphical list of Salvador Dali for € 400 thousand

foreign galleries that specialize primarily on contemporary art, this little cabin. It may be noted that unless a number of galleries, defectors, peremetnuvshihsya in Salon of Fine Arts in Modern Art Fair «Art Moscow». The Austrian Gallery Rudolf Budja once removed to Moscow, Andy Warhol, a Swiss gallery Leonard Ruetmuller - a compilation of works by local contemporary artists, including Ilya Kabakov album «I see it» (1987, € 127 thousand in seven pages). On the domestic arts and the Parisian gallery specializing Orel art, on the stand that there is only a little, such as social-artistskie «Stalin and Marilyn» Leonid Sokov (version 2007) and a huge dollar redraw Valery Koshlyakovym inherent in his elegiac-fuzzy manner.

But the most vivid and convincing stands were not guests, but hosts - Moscow's leading galleries of contemporary art. Small compared to the same «Art Moscow» size stands are not forced to make the entire gallery range and create a kind of conceptual composition. So, stand «Triumph» mimikriroval under antique gallery with antique furniture and porcelain statuettes, only now instead pastushek and Marquis works AES group represented, for example, skinhedku, miluyuschuyusya with Jazid. Gallery «M & Z Gelman» introduced a new, as if specifically set out in line with the surrounding glamor version of the notorious «Era of Mercy» «Blue noses»: this time in the birch forest passionate kiss is not the police, but the ballerina in packs.

«Ridzhina» presented этакий project «Towards the Olympics»: the composition of around five bright rings of Representatives neogeometricheskoy Sarah Morris abstractions (€ 120 thousand), hang the portraits of the participants in the influential Russian political leaders and oligarchs - Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, Roman Abramovich and Viktor Vekselberg, made by Spanish artist Jose Maria Cano in the technique of encaustic (€ 35 thousand for a portrait). A XL built impressive composition of two canvases Dubosarsky Vladimir and Alexander Vinogradov, psychedelic videoochkov Aristarkh Chernyshova with glass screens and bronze rump of a series of Helena Elagin and Igor Makarevich «Russian idea». A gallery GMG has established a remarkably coherent exposition of works by Russian artists of the gallery. Framed patterned brocade like the Buddhist icons-tank Suprematist figures from the cycle of Anatoly Juravleva «Suprematism to China» (€ 28 thousand), together with photographs, scrolls Vadim Zakharov of his hero's adventures, the pastor in Japan, and countless graphic cycle Nikita Alexeev «dying Pictures », which was a place for everything: for dzenskih parables, and Suprematist figures (€ 250 per sheet).

Source: www . kommersant.ru

Summary Photo of the Salon of Fine Arts can be viewed here .