Financing Kabakov retrospective in jeopardy?
ARTinvestment.RU   11 июня 2008

Center for Contemporary Culture CCC Moscow will open in September, and the passions boil now

As we already informed, in September in Moscow to open the Center of Contemporary Culture (CCC Moscow) . It is located in the bus depot, built by Konstantin Melnikov. This project, headed by former model and girlfriend of Roman Abramovich Darey Zhukova, enjoys increasing attention of Russian and foreign press, under the impression from the multimillion-dollar purchases at auctions Abramovich. Zhukov's is planning to establish a permanent exhibition center where, in her words, will the work of contemporary art world-class. On this point, all the guess: could there be to see the recent acquisition of Abramovich - paintings Lyusiana Freud and Francis Bacon and sculpture Takashi Murakami? If Abramovich «pass on the art of the people», it works with such stars as the aforementioned artists, CCC Moscow will be able to become another place of pilgrimage of those among their favorite museums count the London Tate Modern and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

The first major event to be held in the new Center for Contemporary Culture - retrospective leader of Moscow conceptualism Ilya Kabakov and his wife Emilia . At the moment, Kabakov is considered the author of the most expensive work of the works of living Russian artists. In late February, his painting «beetle» was sold at London auction Phillips de Pury & Co for a record sum of 2.9 million pounds sterling. Despite the wide popularity Kabakova in Russia and abroad (in 2000 an influential publication ArtNews included in his list of 10 greatest living artists), the major retrospective exhibition of the artist's Moscow had not yet seen. CCC Moscow, the Pushkin Museum, along with them. Alexander Pushkin, will be one of the two sites, where you will see the installation, installations, paintings and drawings by Kabakov and his «second half» (by the way, earlier paper The Art Newspaper reported on the three sites, the third named gallery «M & Z Gelman» ).

However, to organize the retrospective was not so simple. According to The Art Newspaper, from participating in the project not the main sponsor - the former head of «Norilsk nickel», billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. 43-year-old Prokhorov, who Forbes magazine estimated the state to 19.5 billion dollars, going to the exhibition Kabakov two million dollars. The reasons for refusing to fund the exhibition has not yet been disclosed, but it is known that is based in Norilsk Foundation Prokhorov did cooperate with the CCC Moscow. He will assist in the publication of a book on the artist. A main sponsor of the exhibition can be Abramovich. There are rumors that it will exhibit at the required two million.

In an interview with The Art Newspaper curator of the retrospective Joseph Backstein suggested reasons for refusal Prokhorova finance. According to him, Prokhorova very irritating heightened media attention to Ms. Dasa Zhukova, a figure that eclipses both the exhibition and its sponsor. Recently Zhukova and Abramovich position themselves as major players art market. Enough to remember the last ArtBazel, where Russian billionaire and his girlfriend were the most welcome guest. Foreign media are trumpeting that Russian rich, along with Chinese and Indian nouveaux riches, today ruled the ball in the market of art , and argue that what lead this fashion. Recently, site Bloomberg.com published an interesting article describing how to Beijing in less than a decade, has become one of the young capital of modern art. Perhaps due to the active billionaire Moscow expects the same thing.

Julia Maksimova

Sources: theartnewspaper.com , bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru .



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