Actual Contemporary Art Fair in Basel
ARTinvestment.RU   06 июня 2008

In Basel, Switzerland, from 4 to 8 June, runs one of the world's largest art fairs. ArtBazel - a key event in the world of contemporary art, to miss it for collectors of bad tone

In Basel, Switzerland, from 4 to 8 June, runs one of the world's largest art fairs. Famous gallery world here represent a collection of the most popular artists today. ArtBazel - a key event in the world of contemporary art, to miss it for collectors of bad tone.

«Nonprofit Arts» on ArtBazele not happen. All that is here presented, has a price and, usually, immediately on the spot sale and purchase.

The number of galleries participating no more than three hundred. Owners of even a very curious collection of easy to get to ArtBazel, you must first qualify with the addiction. Invitations gallery sometimes wait years. But the game worth the candle. Exhibited in Basel - is to raise the status of the gallery. Expert Business FM on art market Dmitry Boutkevitch believes that «indirect recognition of merit, so to say, Art Basel, though, perhaps, with the minus sign, is that the Russians virtually no galleries. As far as I know, only one gallery, which is involved in Bazele - is XL - will participate this year. And I know that several more Russian galleries, even питерская one, there are actively trying to penetrate, because it is very prestigious, it is always a big fat plus ».

The most respectable gallery of the United States and Europe, located in the heart of the exhibition. They sell expensive works of Picasso, Modigliani, Warhol. In the center of attention - Francis Bacon painting «Figure in Motion» (1982). The price - more than $ 50 million.

Famous Galleries are generally present in the work of Basel, the price is not below a million. Those that, too, exhibits active sponsors of the fashion at prices from five to eight thousand dollars. «If you search, you can find a long-term work and 10 thousand, - said the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art Joseph Backstein. - People go and watch, buy. The same shop, people are interested in anything that they like. All tastes are different. There are some hits, the work of a Chinese author. But here, as if there are no priorities, determine the number of hits here zeros ».

At the fair in the course and dollars and euros, and Swiss francs. ArtBazel not only a prestigious exhibition and sale, but also the largest gathering of collectors. Gallery call this fair world of art largely Rendezvous. Latest Moscow Art Salon, incidentally, had been seriously affected as due ArtBazelya. Many famous galleries refused to exhibit in Russia, as prepared for the Swiss market status.

At the exhibition in Basel presents the work of more than two thousand artists from nearly three hundred leading galleries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. Works of various genres of modern art, including sculpture, painting, drawing, installation.

On the first high-profile sales to ArtBazele can be found here: http: //www.artinvestment.ru/news/artnews/20080605_oval_buddha_sold.html

Source: http://www.prime-tass . ru