Column by Evgenia Milova about social events of the week
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The past social week began, let’s say, logically. On Monday, the Beluga restaurant hosted the so-called “Collectors’ Dinner,” and on Tuesday, the opening of the 49th Russian Antique Salon. An uninitiated person would think that on the eve of the opening, the organizers of the salon are organizing a dinner for their best customers. In fact, these were completely unrelated events. The “Collectors’ Dinner” was held on the initiative of the revived art magazine Black Square with the support of Beluga vodka. It cannot be said about this publication that it was formed from the current foam of days, like the Moskvichka magazine (see last week’s gossip column). His fate is more bizarre. The first series of Black Square began publication in 2009, and one of the tasks of the editors under the leadership of Anzor Kankulov was to measure the depth of permissible art freedoms. Three issues later, the publication’s investor, Valery Nosov, lost not art, but simply freedom. However, according to recollections, the editors initially perceived the project as a fairy tale, so they were not even surprised when the fairy tale ended. And years later, it turned out that Mr. Nosov, having gained freedom, did not lose interest in the idea of publishing Black Square. Andrey Severilov also joined the project; The magazine intends to be published twice a year in the format of a collector’s edition, the first issue is already on sale. And at the dinner there were not only collectors, for example Victoria and Anton Borisevich or Tatyana Stolyar, but also gallery owners Alina and Dmitry Pinsky and Yulia and Artem Akimov, as well as Tretyakov Gallery director Elena Pronicheva (in total black) and Winzavod owner Sofia Trotsenko.
The Antique Salon, which opened a day later in Gostiny Dvor, nominally offered, among other things, a little contemporary art (it was unlikely to interest any of the dinner guests at Beluga). Here, among bronze and porcelain, Mikhail Barshchevsky unexpectedly surfaced, many years ago falling out of secular circulation. A more expected guest was also spotted – collector of bibliographical rarities Mikhail Seslavinsky.
A day later, a publication less dependent on the circumstances of its investors celebrated its 30th anniversary at the Ethnographic Museum.
By tradition, this evening we thanked readers and admirers.
Representatives of the editorial board, former and current, presented figurines in the shape of the letter “K” to cultural, government and business figures in St. Petersburg. There was a fear that on the occasion of such a big anniversary, the awardees and recipients would be overwhelmed with emotion, which would cause the party to drag on. But no, with a broad gesture, the ceremony was divided into three short acts – five laureates for each decade. Moreover, the decades were also rounded up for accuracy: the birth of “Kommersant” in the nineties, the blessed zeros, the optimistic tenths (however, it was then that the “Kommersant” slogan “With a decisive subtext” appeared). The twenties have decided not to be taken into account at all for now; after all, a festive mood today is not easy to create, and even more so to maintain. At the end of the ceremonies, the Moscow group “Bravo” performed for the guests, which was, perhaps, not entirely polite, but original.
Oddly enough, the twenties were analyzed a day later in the Ruarts Foundation of Marianna Sardarova. There, the New Now exhibition opened, curated by Katrin Borisov – the foundation showed its acquisitions of the last three years. There were plenty of them on all three exhibition floors of the foundation. And although, of course, not all the works were created specifically in recent years, somehow it is immediately clear what is due to the Covid time and what came later. The exhibition ends with a work by Yuri Shabelnikov with a steam locomotive flying towards the word “end”.
On Friday, the first birthday was celebrated by the Zotov center, which on this occasion opened the exhibition “Presnya: an exhibition of my memory.” The guests, among whom were Alexandra Lekomtseva, Zelfira Tregulova, Olga Sviblova, Oksana Bondarenko, Marianna Maksimovskaya, Evgenia Linovich and others, agreed that in just a year “Zotov” has become a familiar route: you’ll drop in for a lecture, then you’ll go to the cinema. However, Garage director Anton Belov admitted that it was his first time coming here. After the solemn speeches, those gathered were treated to a cake in the form of a huge loaf, and small loaves of black bread were given as souvenirs – after all, Zotov’s first specialty was a bakery.
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