Evgenia Milova about the social events of the week

Last week, art dominated the secular agenda. And the most secular, if such a definition is generally appropriate here, was the farewell to the sculptor and president of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurabnel in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (for more details see. « Kommersant » from April 24). The acting and acting creative ambitions of the deceased face in the heyday of the deceased face: Vladimir Resin, German Gref, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Konstantin Ernst, Igor Levitin, Alexander Stepashin, artists Yuri Kuper, Nikas Safronov, Alexander Burganov and even never acting face – Grand Duke George Romanov, massively came here. It must be said that it was here that there was no discrepancies on the value of the value of artistic, and especially the sculptural, heritage of Mr. Ceresheli. In any case, not out loud.

The guests of the ART Newspaper Russia (Tanr) award ceremony, which took the same evening at the Pushkin Drama Theater, did not concern the same issue. But this does not mean that Tsereteli did not talk about the departure of Zurab. On the contrary, in private conversations, guests of the award emphasized that contemporary art today is not the most favorite genre of the authorities and even the very elderly Zurab Konstantinovich was not an absolute, but good roof from thunder and lightning from above and that now a lot will change. “He was a man of great talent and a wide soul, helped colleagues, supported cultural initiatives. He was a great friend of our newspaper, ”Tatyana Sahokia, general director of Tanr, summed up from the stage.

Nevertheless, the prize is held, and even Alexei Agranovich still puts it. This year, the plot was as if, following a meeting in the Zoom, the People’s Commissar of Education, Lunacharsky, orders the script to a certain hero and the audience watches what happened in the end. And there is a kind of flow of colors in honor of the winner in the nomination “Exhibition of the Year” – “Ars Vivendi. France Sneigers and the Flemish still life of the XVII century, ”and the reading of the feuilleton Ilf and Petrov“ The Funny Unit ”in honor of the book“ Zotov ”of the book“ Work and Live. Architecture of constructivism. 1917–1937 ”, and family photos of different years of Vasily Bychkova, who received the award“ For contribution ”from the hands of Sophia Trotsenko. In general, everything turned out to be so interesting that the “customer” refused to accept the work – a very life work turned out.

Literally on the eve of the Tanr Award in the Gostiny Dvor, the Art Moscow Fair opened – including Mr. Bychkov for it, he received his award “for his contribution to the development of the art process and the art market.” Her story is not continuous, but this is the oldest of our acting art-fairs. To date, it works in the format of “one window”: classical and contemporary art, antiques, jewelry, and circulation art are represented here. That is, if desired, you can decorate yourself and all your dwellings in one fell swoop. The same multidirection is confused to the exhibition areas sometimes too wide the audience, although I also noticed Marianne Maksimovskaya, Elena Remchukova, Igor Garanin, Inna Bazhenova and the ardent collector of Timur Yunusov (Timati). This year, the Jewelry brand of Letters & Stones, Natalia Arkhangelskaya, co -founder of Antiplyan, debuted at Art Moscow. According to the results of participation, she said that the sales surpassed all her expectations, so it is not surprising that in the jewelry segment there are 20 brands in the queue for each place: “Of course, after such concentrated communication, real holidays are needed, but we have grown sales and the number of subscribers.”

Evgenia Milova, observer “Kommersant”