Interviews, Artistic Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) Leonid Bazhanov RIA Novosti

Russian collectors are ready to make its collection of contemporary art in public, says artistic director of the Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) Leonid Bazhanov.

«The time when people are actively buying contemporary art, held him under lock and key. Today, most collectors willingly exhibits his collections and actively involved in the art forums, including in our collection of contemporary art festival, which takes place in the NCCA for the second time », - said the representative of the NCCA. He added that today, private collections are ready for the publicity: «open museums of Contemporary Art, Culture Fund" Catherine "and the Stella Art Foundation to present their collections and collector Pierre Brooches vozit his collection of contemporary art in Russia».

Festival of contemporary art collections will begin on 4 August - the project at various stages of capital will be held round tables and shows the public, private and corporate collections, including video art and an exhibition of artists Yuri Sobolev, and Boris Turetsky from the collection of the NCCA, private collection of Maxim Boxer and Olga Kovaleva, Aslan Chehoeva assembly and collection of video art «MediaArtLab». And in September, first exhibited his collection of young collectors (draft Young Gallerist - Young Collectors). According to the interlocutor Agency, the organizers plan to make it international.

Hudruk NCCA noted that although Russia interested in contemporary art today is experiencing the rise of the undoubted, but «the majority of local collectors - investors, such fans of the Soviet era, what was George Kostaki and Leonid Talochkin almost no».

RUSSIAN ART: CHEAP AND FUTURE

According to Bazhanov, most of today's collectors are focused on Russian art, and the «only one very wealthy people can afford to collect the global contemporary art». In addition, he said, Russian art, and cheaper, in terms of investors, effectively the western. «Western art has appreciated by society, so the rate of growth of prices for it are not as high as in the domestic arts. In the past few years, prices for many works of Russian authors took off hundreds of times », - he added.

Bazhanov confirmed that in many new areas of contemporary art collectors from Russia include cautious: «For example, while collecting video art is not very active, so as not imagine how to deal with new technologies, how to store the collection, and fear mass of work ». He also added that the collectors are oriented primarily to the art gallery and in galleries «do not like to sell video, just do not know how to work with them».

MUSEUMS lost time

«Create a complete public collections of contemporary art has failed: it was missing a lot of time, a significant portion of the work went to the West and in private collections», - said Bazhanov.

Head of NCCA noted that «museums today is extremely difficult to build collections of contemporary art without the meaningful support of the state». However, in his view, the roots of the problem lies more in the cultural policy of the USSR: «In Soviet times, does not collect contemporary art, it was struck from the museum of life. Miraculously, things settled in the museums in Kazakhstan in Yerevan ». He added that «public collections of contemporary art, which now exists in our country - the result of the activities of the expert council at Minkulte in the 1990's, which acquired the work of artists for museums». In addition, according to an interlocutor Agency, «has helped build collections of contemporary art at the Tretyakov Gallery and the work of staff Andrew Yerofeeva galleries».

Bazhanov explained that receive NCCA gossubsidii today the acquisition of only a few paintings, although the «collection of the Center for Contemporary Art is replenished each year approximately one hundred works, purchased at their own expense». «We are looking for different ways. For example, investing money in building works and the artist, or sell our work at a reduced price or gives. Some things we give gallery. It helps that each artist prefers to be the thing hanging in the Museum », - he said.

Head of NCCA added that the market for art museums do not keep pace, «need principled support of the state, and meaningful public policy».

«It must be designed a specific policy: the formation of a non-profit system of good art education, a system of grants to support the authors, the formation of a full-fledged museum of modern art with a strong research activity. In any European city, five - ten museums of modern art », - he said. Yes, and Russia, according to Bazhanov, should be involved not only in the Venice Biennale, but also in the leading forum of contemporary art as the Biennale or Documenta in Sydney or Sao Paulo.

«The museum collection should be on another level. For example, in France, the state releases huge amounts of money to museums, and in countries where little public museums, such as the United States, active funds and trustees of which are seeking the necessary budget », - he concluded.

Source : rian.ru