Larry Gagosian

Larry Gagosian ( born April 19, 1945 in Los Angeles, (California ) is an American art dealer of modern and contemporary art of Armenian origin.

Career

Larry Gagosian ( Business Name: Go-Go ) operating in Santa Monica a poster shop, before 1977 in San Francisco opened a gallery for contemporary art. His first artists included Richard Serra, Frank Stella and Jean -Michel Basquiat, whose works he sold mainly to the film stars in Hollywood, but also to Industrial the U.S. West Coast. He is regarded as a sales genius. Opened in 1985, Gagosian Gallery in New York in a penthouse on Madison Avenue. In the same year he founded in collaboration with Leo Castelli another gallery in the 65 Thompson Street in SoHo. In the early 1990s came in the Wooster Street with a lit by skylight former garage, another gallery in New York added, in which mainly the heavyweight sculptures by Richard Serra and Walter de Maria could be issued. Serra's sculpture "Intersection II" was sold out of the garage directly to the Museum of Modern Art.

Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian has built with his Gagosian Gallery is a " gallery - empire", which makes him one of the world's most powerful art dealer. That are present from him a painter and sculptor, he shows in his own galleries in eight locations in New York, Beverly Hills, London, Rome and Athens, and on the international art fairs. In addition, he gives exhibitions of these artists worldwide to museums and other private art galleries. For an exhibition of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, he tipped over the Museum of Contemporary Art ( MOCA ) in Los Angeles, 2008, all the rooms of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt fully with works of art, but also with merchandising products. Gagosian will not issue any young, aspiring artist, but assumes their representation only after their market penetration. It represents, among other Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Glenn Brown, Frank Stella, Rachel Whiteread, Jake and Dinos Chapman, John Currin, Jasper Johns, Gilbert and George and Nan Goldin, and the estate of Andy Warhol. Among the most famous collectors who work long term with Gagosian, Charles Saatchi heard.

2003, the American Government Larry Gagosian and three of his business associates had accused of evasion of $ 26.5 million income tax.

The annual turnover of the art trade of all activities of Larry Gagosian is estimated at $ 925 million.

Locations

As a global company Gagosian Art Galleries operates in New York ( three locations), Beverly Hills, London ( two sites ), Rome, Paris ( two locations), Athens and Geneva, as well as offices in Hong Kong and La Jolla.

The planned by French architect Jean Nouvel conversion of an industrial building on the former Le Bourget airport, north of Paris was passed in October 2012 with an exhibition of Anselm Kiefer Morgenthau plan of use.

Traded by the gallery artists

Exhibitions

  • 2010/2011: RSTW - 72 works from the collection in the exhibition Gagosians house Manarat al Saadiyat on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi.
  • 2012/2013: Revisionist type: Thirty Works of Bob Dylan, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York City.
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