President and owner of DCH, the general investor of Kharkiv preparation for Euro-2012 Oleksandr Iaroslavskyi visited the 4-th Davos philanthropic roundtable. The event was held today, on Jan. 27, in the Swiss Alps, where these days there is the annual World Economic Forum.
This year literature and art representatives as well as philanthropists discussed the role of philanthropy in the modernization of society through contemporary art. Moderator of the discussion was the famous author Paulo Coelho. The round table was attended by Richard Armstrong, director of the Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Jeff Koons, artist (USA), Olafur Eliasson, Her Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority Board responsible both for the I.M. Pei’ Museum of Islamic Art and the recently opened Mathaf Modern, Bernardo Paz and others.
As previously reported, in October 2010, Oleksandr Iaroslavskyi and Dmytro Firtash (owner of Group DF) entered the history of the Ukrainian philanthropy, once bought the most expensive lot of the existence of an auction in Ukraine. This is Damien Hirst`s picture of (UK) "In Love", which businessmen purchased for 1.75 million euro at a charity dinner of Elena Pinchuk`s fund ANTIAIDS. Money raised by the fund for the painting, went to the expansion of the joint project ANTIAIDS with the Clinton Foundation in Ukraine.
Notably, Damien Hirst personally participated in the 4th Davos philanthropic roundtable - to create paintings in the style he invented spin painting (using a special machine).
