“The Gallery-Goer” is a book-meeting point: a place where those who want to “live fruitfully in art” connect with those who want to “live happily with art.” The art field is considered like a compass—through the perspective of its four main actors: the artist, the gallery owner, the professional environment, and the viewer-buyer-collector. This approach allows a “panoramic” view of all participants, shows their requests, interests, and motivations, and traces the logic of their interaction.
Elena Petrova, co-founder and director of the art gallery “Neskuchny Sad,” creative director of the art space “Apartment 10,” is not an outside observer but an active participant inside the process. Drawing on personal experience and an “non-academic” tone, the author describes the everyday life of what you might call the average Russian “culture of onlookers.”
This book will help everyone who creates, distributes, explains, and consumes art to better understand one another. At the same time, it contains many important practical things so needed in everyday life.