At вернисаже For what you are about to receive ( «The fact that you will» ) for the «Red October» guests admired the masterpieces of contemporary art (contemporary art), worth tens of millions of dollars, but they spit the talk around the economic crisis and its impact on the art market, broadcast correspondents said.

«Yes, do not worry you will not affect you to a crisis. You do not market securities do! This is art, it lives by its own rules », - assured the President of« Alfa-Bank »Pyotr Aven troubled Catherine Degot.

In the exhibition For what you are about to receive the entire range of contemporary art. Some hundreds of the best contemporary artists, including works by Willem de Kuninga (Willem de Kooning), Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons), Marc Newson (Marc Newson), Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami), Richard Serra (Richard Serra), Alberto Giacometti (Alberto Giacometti), Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein) and others.

Especially in the exhibition galleries Gagosyana, as well as the opening three-part retrospective exhibition Kabakov came full color art community of Europe and the United States.

next to the works of artists do not hang the traditional labels, which, according to deputy director of the Kremlin Museums Zelfira Tregulova is a certain game from Gagosyana when not attracted by the name of the artist, and created his image.

Sam Gagosyan said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the «crisis in the securities market and other areas of the world economy are not always directly affect the prices of art ... No one knows. Sometimes strange things: sometimes on the background of the collapse of the financial and other markets, the people, by contrast, are beginning to buy more art. However, to make any predictions, I do not want ». However, he expressed hope that «Russia's economy is so diverse that such crises should not seriously affect it». Gagosyan with great pleasure to inform interested collectors prices for these products. Collectors have shown keen interest, but do not hurry to book masterpieces. «When you go and look at these works, to forget that the market has fallen, it is quite difficult. This gives all that we see a particular shade of a feast during the plague », - has expressed its opinion Tregulova.

It was too optimistic and is a famous artist Takashi Murakami, who created a special painting for the exhibition, inspired by Japanese anime and mango. He said in an interview with RIA Novosti that «I am sure that the economic crisis necessarily affect the contemporary art ... I remember very well what happened to the art market in Japan and the world in the early 1990's, and as falling prices for works of art. Therefore, I have no illusions. Another point is that the effect of the crisis can not happen now, but after a couple of years ».

But the deputy chairman of the board of directors «Sotheby's Europe» Lord Mark Paltimor stayed in the apparent euphoria about the unprecedented sales of British artist Hirst Demiena ended the previous day. At the two-day auction auction «Sotheby's», that took place on 15 and 16 September, the work of Hurst was able to gain 111 million pounds (198 million dollars), almost twice estimeyt. «I can not imagine that people have so much free money, it was fine. And it is remarkable that the rich people have decided that money to invest in art. By the way, a quarter of all buyers were from Russia », - confessed Sir Paltimor.

Despite the light's in the air nervousness caused by the global financial problems, Opening Day brought an unprecedented number of recognizable persons, among them Natalia Vodyanova with her husband, Daria Zhukova, a businessman Vahe Yengibaryan, director of the Gorky Film Studio Stanislav Yershov, a member of the Board Producers Guild of Russia Alexander Atanesyan, Andrei and Elena Kozyreva.

Source: rian.ru