Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gallerists But Were Afraid to Ask

by Andrea Bellini (Editor)

The massive expansion of the art market in recent decades has aroused much intrigue about how galleries operate, particularly as critics, artists and independent curators take the lead in opening their own spaces, enhancing the appeal of the gallerist's role. The primary function of the contemporary gallerist continues to be the one established by D.H. Kahnweiler over a century that of a ""traveling companion"" to artists, one who nourishes the work's development, recording it and ensuring its optimum passage into the world. But in today's economy, the gallerist as cultural entrepreneur and arbiter exercises a professional hybridity far removed from Kahnweiler's day. Here, Andrea Bellini interviews figures from 51 galleries, including Gavin Brown's Enterprise (New York), Massimo De Carlo (Milan), Greene Naftali (New York), Hotel (London), Kurimanzutto (Mexico), Franco Noero (Turin), Eva Presenhuber (Zurich), Johann König (Berlin) and Vitamin (Beijing), eliciting their views on the complexities of art culture worldwide.

Genres: Art

334 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2011

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish the interviews had been done in person - or if they were, that they didn't seem like they were done by email. Sometimes a gallerist says something interesting that in a conversation would be followed up on and explained further. The title should have been "Some things you wanted to know..." The book is too slight for "Everything."