| ART MOSCOW 2005: press-release Expo-Park Exhibition Projects is staging an annual International Art Fair ART MOSCOW in the Central House of Artists from May 24 to 29, 2004.
Over the past year, modern art has acquired a new status in Russia. It has started using non-museum floor spaces and revealed new forms of expression. Russian artists actively participated in large international projects and a number of forums of actual tendencies was steadily growing. It is safe to say that modern art has become popular and even quite the thing. In 1996, the year of its establishment, International Art Fair ART MOSCOW came out precisely for these goals. Among all art institutions of Moscow, it was ART MOSCOW which was open to spectators to the most extent possible as it aims to enlist new admirers, friends and collectors of modern works of art.
The exhibition sponsors acknowledge the neccesity to move towards professionalism and quality, therefore they come out for intelligent collecting, healthy market and civilized relations between participants of the process. The objective is to integrate Russian art into a bigger world, and the big world art - into the Russian exhibition landscape.
A number of the fair participants has considerably increased this year: there are more than fifty participants; the exhibition will occupy not only the second but also the third floor of the Central House of Artists. For the first time in history, almost half of diplayed galleries will come from abroad. Among new participants are B&D studio (Milan), Galerie Albert Benamou (Paris), i-20 gallery (New York), ibid projects (London), Karin Sachs gallery (Munich), Schuebbe - Projektroom Gallery (Dusseldorf) and others.
The sponsors are sure that professionalism shall not necessarily imply narrowing of prospects. To sell is not an end in itself. ART MOSCOW has always been not only a fair and an exhibition, but it was also a stage of intellectual findings, a discussion club, a laboratory of strategies with top-quality concepts and large scale projects. Because of this, the focus of non-commercial programme is gradually shifting towards large exhibitions which will make it possible to view domestic and world art in the long term.
Expert council:
Joseph Bakstein (Institute of Problems of Modern Art, Moscow), Marat Gelman (Gelman Gallery, Moscow), Ekaterina Dyogot (Moscow), Volker Diehl (Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin), Hans Knoll (Hans Knoll Gallery, Vienna), Egor Larichev (magazine WAM, Moscow), Victor Miziano (Moscow Art Magazine), Aidan Salakhova (Aidan Gallery, Moscow), Helen Selina (XL gallery, Moscow).
It is planned to put on a number of exhibitions and launch special projects including educational ones as part of the International Fair ÀRÒ MOSCOW.
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