With Pavel Banka, Galina Chirikova, Anna Danilova, Oleg DOU, Chris Fortescue,

Jiri Hanke, Sergey Maximishin, Evgeny Mokhorev, Igor Moukhin, Shunsuke Ohno, Margo Ovcharenko, Dmitry Sokolenko, Antanas Sutkus, Dasha Yastrebova, Maria Yastrebova, Sonia & Mark WhitesnowWhat do you like about art?

What do you like about art?

Me? Truth, sincerity, power, emotion, beauty, the unexpected... because what is created with a work of art is an exchange, a kind of infinite conversation with other humans, like those endless debates over tea or a drink with the people I love.

Since my childhood I have gone to museums with my mother. For the last eight years, I have looked, selected, shown, explained and written about the artwork I love.

Each time, the reasons are different. But each time I am extremely HAPPY to be able to do it. And that, I believe, goes beyond a simple (and difficult) possibility to do what I like.

I feel that I am creating something by presenting these artists from around the world, that I am participating, in some way, in passing something on. As soon as I start preparing an exhibition, hanging up the prints, I am telling a story, my story, the story of my country, but also the story of what it means to be a human being.

Today I would like to present all the artists I love, whom I have been exhibited at the Russiantearoom Gallery for the past eight years.