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Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years

Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years

Published by Jenni Sidey

After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram. “I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,” Zollinger said in a statement. “A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of this year, I was prepared to once again invest the time, energy, and conviction required to push the gallery forward. I wanted to believe in a recovering market and a path toward growth.” Related Articles However, Zollinger continued, “it has become increasingly clear that the global landscape offers little more than continued instability,” adding that the “conditions necessary” to sustain and grow the gallery “are no longer present.” The gallery’s compact roster leaned toward Swiss and Scandinavian artists working in three-dimensional media, while also including artists from Southeast Asia and the United States. Its most recent exhibition, presented at Galerie Mueller in Basel, Switzerland, and closed on April 18, is a dual presentation of Renée Levi, a Swiss painter associated with Basel’s abstract …

Collector and ‘Galerie’ Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Epstein

Collector and ‘Galerie’ Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Epstein

Published by José Betancourt

Documents in the Justice Department’s release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein appear to show ties between the financier and convicted sex offender and a New York art collector and magazine publisher, and her developer-investor husband. Lisa Fayne Cohen and her husband, Jimmy Cohen—founder, CEO, and chairman of the real estate and development firm Hudson Capital Properties—were in close contact with Epstein in 2015 and early 2016, long after his crimes were a matter of public knowledge, according to emails released in the so-called Epstein Files, which began to be released in December. There is no indication in the files of any wrongdoing on either’s part. Related Articles In one email exchange, Lisa Cohen was laying the groundwork for the launch of Galerie magazine. Not long after, Epstein’s Paris apartment appeared anonymously on the cover of the magazine’s second issue, in fall 2016, and in an extensive spread inside. The Cohens began collecting art in 2009 with a work by French modernist Fernand Léger, according to a 2023 Artnet News profile, which noted that they …

Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue

Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue

Published by José Betancourt

The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue’s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. “Located in a space with a long history in modern art, formerly Galerie Malingue, this new venue reflects Mennour’s continued growth while setting out a clear direction: the showcasing of significant works by modern, post-war and contemporary artists from private collections,” said the gallery in an emailed announcement.  Related Articles “This curatorial programme complements the gallery’s primary market activity and its longstanding work with artist estates over the past 25 years,” the statement continued. “It also reinforces Mennour’s increased focus on historical works over recent years, including the exhibition of masterpieces by artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell, Henri Matisse, Tsuguharu Foujita and Yayoi Kusama.” Daniel Malingue founded his gallery, focused on Impressionism, Surrealism, and modern and postwar art, more than five decades ago. The gallery’s website lists …

At Galerie Eric Mouchet in Paris, Hazara artists navigate persecution and exile

At Galerie Eric Mouchet in Paris, Hazara artists navigate persecution and exile

Published by Sam Flores

“One Thousand Individuals” (2022), by Latifa Zafar Attaii. LATIFA ZAFAR ATTAII/MATTEO LOSURDO The Hazara people live in Afghanistan, Pakistan – primarily in the province of Balochistan – and Iran. The origins of the Hazara are a matter of debate. Their Asian features have led to speculation that they are descendants of Genghis Khan’s Mongol armies, though this theory seems more fanciful than factual. What is, by contrast, painfully certain is that the Hazara have long been and remain victims of systematic persecution in all three countries. Because they are overwhelmingly Shiite Muslims, the Hazara have been targets of attacks and massacres in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and in Pakistan, where Sunni extremists hold sway. In Shiite-majority Iran, their status as non-Persian, foreign migrants, often viewed with contempt, puts them at risk. Their history is “a continuum of religious and racial persecution,” said Emile Drousie, a specialist in Central Asian cultural scenes and curator of this first exhibition in France dedicated to Hazara artists, at Galerie Eric Mouchet in Paris. You have 79.08% of this article left to …