| ART MOSCOW 2007: press-release
XI International Art Fair ART MOSCOW will be held in the Central House of Artists from 16 to 20 May, 2007. Since 1996, every spring owners of galleries, trustees, critics, theoreticians, art historians, artists, judges and collectors of modern art from all over the world gather at this forum of modern art to turn it into a hearth and home of the capital’s cultural life. During the eleven years of its existence ART MOSCOW has proved itself to be the most effective market ground of contemporary art on the Russia’s art scene that affords maximum opportunity for implementing cultural and commercial ideas. The success of ART MOSCOW arises from its professional adequacy to the present moment of development of modern culture in Russia. ART MOSCOW Fair is the place where one can not only get acquainted with art trends of current interest but also invest capital to one’s advantage.
The high quality level of gallery expositions at the fair is a result of the work of the Expert Council bringing together leading Russian and foreign owners of galleries, theoreticians and art historians. It includes Marat Gelman (Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow), Volker Diehl (Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin), Hans Knoll (Knollgallery, Vienna-Budapest), Aidan Salakhova (Aidan Gallery, Moscow), Elena Selina (XL Gallery, Moscow).
In 2007, 73 galleries from 16 countries will take part in the fair. They are Russia, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Latvia, England, Luxemburg, Sweden, United States, Finland, Ukraine and Serbia. Traditionally, works of classics of the world contemporary art and most popular artists of recent years will be exhibited in the stalls.
This year, together with the galleries that have proved their substantiality in the international art-scene, there will be young institutes that have just started their activities but already managed to show up in various art projects. The Zone of the Young is represented by such galleries as ZEH and Kiev Fine Art (Kiev, Ukraine), as well as Glance (Turin, Italy), RX and Studio MAC (Paris, France).
ART MOSCOW is coming up to the world level as regards organizing various arrangements around the main event such as presentations, discussions and informal meetings making a comfortable and creative milieu that contributes to exchanging experience and working out plans for the future. Traditionally, the fair lays stress not only on commercial issues but also performs as a Kulturträger. Year by year, its non-commercial projects are gaining in weight and qualify for museum quality.
In 2007, a vast program of accompanying art events will be carried out as a part of the fair. Based on international experience ART MOSCOW starts a new project for works that have the size or technical implementation not suitable to be exhibited in the stalls of the art fair. «Non Format» Project is to change the routine of exhibiting works of art exclusively in the stalls and offers an alternative platform for their demonstration to the galleries.
The 2007 fair’s program includes a set of lectures on investments into the art; a personal exposition of the winners of Black Square, a national modern art award; an exhibition from the private collection of Alexandr Smuzikov; a program of performances of French artist Tristan Favre and Russian artists Ivan Razumov and Dmitry Fine. Besides, the fair’s concurrent program unites various art events on Moscow’s other exhibition grounds.
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