21 Dec 2011

Arterritory Highlights from St.Petersburg

The international scientific conference, Art and Reality 2011: Art Criticism, was held in St. Petersburg, November 25-27, 2011. It was organized by the Petr Konchalovsky Foundation and attracted a host of prestigious art scientists, critics, curators, collectors and market experts, as well as journalists and bloggers from around the world.

Arterritory.com, the international art and culture website with a focus on art processes in Russia, Scandinavia and the Baltics, also took part in Art and Reality 2011, and took advantage of the opportunity to meet with its participants. We offer our readers an exclusive interview with Marek Bartelik (USA), president of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), and a conversation with the French art critic and blogger, Judith Benhamou-Huet; she is also the author of the book, 'The Worth of Art: Pricing the Priceless', which is highly regarded in the art world.

Read here:
www.arterritory.com/en/texts/interviews/573-the_free_hunter_of_meanings/
www.arterritory.com/en/texts/interviews/574-the_paris_account/

A notable event in St. Petersburg this autumn was the Loft Project ETAGI-hosted, large-scale group exhibition, 'Nordic Art Today', consisting of works by artists hailing from Scandinavia and Northern Russia. The Russian art critic, Dmitry Golynko-Wolfson, has written a careful analysis of the exhibition, and attempts to answer the question: What worries and creates dissatisfaction in contemporary Nordic art?

Read here:
www.arterritory.com/en/texts/exhibition_reviews/575-nordic_art_today_conceptual_debts,_broken_dreams_and_new_horizons/

The art and culture internet portal, Arterritory.com, is the territory of Baltic, Scandinavian and Russian art – an international platform for the advancement of dialog and information-flow among these regions. Based in Riga, the internet medium is published in three languages: Russian, English and Latvian. Its team closely follows news and events in the Russian, Scandinavian and Baltic art scenes, and this year offered on-site coverage of the Venice Biennale, ART MOSCOW 2011 and the 4th Moscow Biennale. Arterritory.com has the latest news, interviews with collectors, artists and curators, as well as reviews of the most notable exhibitions going on in the regions of focus. The site also offers blogs, videos and 'Sneak Peeks' into the artists' studios. Register for the portal's Newsletter, and stay up to date with Arterritory.com! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!

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