Enjoying Art by Claudia Sonea

The annual Art Basel fair who will be held on Wednesday in Switzerland offer us the possibility to feast our eyes with all the beauties in contemporary paintings, drawings, sculpture, performances, installations and video art. It is a proof that globalization is spreading its tentacles to all fields including art. Only the financial crisis is shadowing the long awaited event. As always art has been booming even in times of crisis and people are willing to invest a great deal of money into it. In consequence, at the fair there are expected to be made transactions of millions of dollars and more than 60000 people attending it. 300 top galleries will present works of over 2000 artists from all over the world revealing the latest trends in the world. Francis Bacon (the author of the most expensive contemporary work of art), Murakami Takashi, Robert Rauschenberg and Tom Wesselman are just some names on the list with greatest artist to be present there. Being such an important fair with works that worth millions of dollars, there is absolutely necessary for insurance companies to be present, especially in the context of the robbery that took place in February at a Zurich Museum. Fortunately the works of Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh stolen returned to the museum after two days, but those of Paul Cezanne and Edgar Degas haven't been found up to now. I think it is impressing to attend to such an event, but the question remaining is whether I have the money to even set foot in the perimeters of it. Let us better see how it will go and which painting will be sold and at what price. Don't go away, more to come...

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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