Over the past decade, INTART has chronicled the post-Soviet "moment" through numerous museum and university exhibitions across the United States, Europe and Russia, with documented complementary publications of the artists represented. The goal of these endeavours is to materialise the idea of cultural identity as an open invitation to interact with a once sovereign empire.

As a premier cultural attaché on contemporary, modern and post-modern Russian art, its founder and president Alexandre Gertsman, offers a unique opportunity as a representative of both the prominently established and tacitly developing Russian artists, whose collective experience invariably extracts coloured response and discourse, promoting cross-cultural communication. Amongst these, select works have been exhibited in and are part of the collections of the MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Art of this calibre stands not simply as a monument to Russian identity and fortitude but as a correlation to history and contemplation of the current. It serves as an ideal background for the promotion of cultural exchange, an appropriate platform for the ever-widening socio-political parameters of our global environment and one that juxtaposes the charged and changing relation between image and reality.

The foundation is worthy of an artistic tapestry that clearly demonstrates an openness to and acceptance of a global embrace and respect of cultural pluralism and remains committed to the continuity of Russian consciousness through knowledge and understanding.