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Gallery history
About Us
The gallery also organizes diferent events in the feld of art in Russia and abroad.
In portfolio of 11.12 GALLERY are participations in such international art events as CONTEXT Art Miami (USA), Art Miami New York (USA), Art Chicago (USA), Cosmoscow (Russia), Art Kiev Contemporary (Ukraine), Art Moscow (Russia), Art Stage (Singapore), Scope New York (USA), Scope Miami (USA), Scope Basel (Switzerland), Art Beijing (China), Art Manege (Russia), Art Vilnius (Lithuania) etc.
founder, inspirer and permanent director of 11.12 GALLERY
ALEXANDER SHAROV
« … I was born in Moscow in 1964. In the 80s, I graduated from the Institute of Communications. In the 90’s I started the packaging business, which later, in the early the ’00s, allowed me to open the first showroom of contemporary art in Barvikha, where I exhibited the works of my artist friends: Lesha Alpatov, Max Basheva, Sasha Zhernokluev, Vladimir Semenskiy. In parallel, I began collecting art. Now I have about a hundred works in my collection (mostly from the beginning of the XXI century). I can’t cooperate with artists on principle if I don’t want to have their work in my collection. It is difficult for an ignorant person to distinguish between collecting and hoarding. I consider myself to be the second type: those who buy randomly based on emotions. A collection is
always a structure that restricts the freedom of choice: whether it is a period, and/or a technique.
Today, I can say that I happy with my success, because the works of artists of my gallery, who once started with me, now live in museums, large private collections, and are sold at international fairs and auctions on both sides of the ocean: from Miami to Singapore.
Quite quickly, within a few years, the showroom was reborn into a full-fledged gallery, which I named from the date of my birth: “11.12”. At the same time, I was lucky enough to settle it in the centre for contemporary art “Winzavod”, where we have been living happily for ten years».
