В Центре современной культуры «Солодовня» состоялся 12-й Благотворительный аукцион Фонда Cosmoscow в поддержку современного искусства

On April 10, the 12th Cosmoscow Foundation Charity Auction took place at the Solodovnya Center for Contemporary Culture, with the support of partners MR Private, BORK, Beluga, and edis. Collectors and patrons united in their desire to support contemporary Russian artists and contribute to the development of the arts. The event was hosted by Ivan Urgant. Revenue totaled 17.3 million rubles.

The curatorial selection of the lots, together with the Cosmoscow Foundation's expert council, was carried out by Ksenia Chilingarova, a Russian publicist, publisher, poet and collector. The concept of the 12th Cosmoscow auction was centered around a new general theory of perception, which is opposed to mechanistic information processing, factual operations and ready-made value judgments. The theme of the project was designed to emphasize the importance of personal emotional experience caused by the reality of things, their materiality or physicality, their literal presence.

According to the auction results, sales amounted to more than 17.3 million rubles. The proceeds will be directed to the Cosmoscow Foundation to create new works of art, work with collections of Russian museums, organize educational programs and expand non—profit activities. 

The absolute record holder in the bidding rounds and the most expensive work sold at auction was the work of LU (Lucy Solovyova) under the name "Lamb" — 3,000,000 rubles. A unique lot from MR. Private — Two tickets to the Imperial Box of the main stage of the Bolshoi Theater — was purchased for 2,000,000 rubles.

Other favorites of collectors and patrons include Anastasia Bezvershuk's work "Apple Light" — 750,000 rubles; Dmitry Bulnygin's "Winter Herbarium" — 750,000 rubles; street art artist Timofey Radi's "Something" - 700,000 rubles; Andrey Knyazev's "Bench of Youth" — 700,000 rubles; Polina Shilkinite's work "A family photo" — 650,000 rubles; Pavel Grishin's work "Island" — 650,000 rubles; Lot from the Teo platform — Yakov Khomich's "Take me home" was sold for 600,000 rubles; Stanislav Falkov's painting "Untitled" — 600,000 rubles; Natalia Spechinskaya's "Self—portrait" object — 550,000 rubles; Arina Frank's "Rattles" series — 450,000 rubles; Joana Miro's "Lithograph" — 400,000 rubles; Vitaly Pushnitsky's "Island" — 350,000 rubles; Polina Rukovichkina's twins and Silence gets colder photographs - 350,000 rubles; digital painting by Sasha Lemish "I can't feel bad today" — 300,000 rubles; canvas by Shamil Shaaev "Royal bed. Gold" — 250,000 rubles.