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Scaled-Down Art Moscow Draws No Shortage of Wealth

By Valentin Diaconov

Published: May 19, 2008
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Courtesy Veronika Golitsyna
Aidan gallery's booth with paintings by Leonid Rotar and an installation by Anna Zhelud


Courtesy Veronika Golitsyna
Krokin gallery booth with works by Konstantin Batynkov, Dmitry Tsvetkov, and Olga Chernysheva

Christianity, or at least Christian themes, made a number of appearances at this year’s fair. One of Moscow’s richest galleries, Triumph, introduced a selection of Christian-themed paintings and installations, including Damien Hirst’s crucifix from his “New Religion” series, which sold to Russia’s State Center for Contemporary Art, as well as works by several Russian artists. Triumph director Emelyan Zakharov declined to discuss the prices, but said that 70 percent of the works at the booth were sold. Meanwhile, in the fair’s “Special Projects” section, which every year introduces different solo and group projects, the duo Dmitry Vrubel and Victoria Timofeeva showed a series of paintings called “Evangelical Project,” in which the artists combined images from news agencies and the Internet with quotations from the New Testament.
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