Paris’s Galerie Templon to Open Outpost in New York – RisePEI

Galerie Templon, one in every of Paris’s main up to date artwork galleries, will open a location in New York this fall. The area’s inaugural exhibition will likely be a solo present dedicated to artist Omar Ba, who is predicated in New York and Dakar, Senegal.

The brand new location, at 293 Tenth Avenue, is positioned in New York’s Chelsea space, and was previously residence to Kasmin gallery. The 6,500-square-foot area will likely be renovated by architect Markus Dochantschi’s studio MDA. Along with the Ba exhibition, Templon has exhibits deliberate within the coming months for artists Chiharu Shiota, Iván Navarro, Prune Nourry, Michael Ray Charles, Jim Dine, and Edward and Nancy Kienholz.

For his exhibition, Ba will “current a brand new collection of portray investigating the complicated place of Africa in right this moment’s American and European politics,” in response to a launch. He can even have two main institutional exhibits later this yr, on the Royal Museums of Positive Arts of Belgium in Brussels (opening in April) and on the Baltimore Museum of Artwork.

Templon was based by Daniel Templon in Paris in 1966 and is positioned within the metropolis’s Marais neighborhood. In 2016, the gallery expanded to Brussels. Daniel’s son, Mathieu Templon, had beforehand led the Belgian area, and can now relocate to New York to guide the brand new area.

In a press release, Mathieu Templon mentioned, “In a context profoundly reshaped by the pandemic, and the renewed attractiveness of Paris as a cultural hub, it solely appeared pure to develop the gallery’s footprint and arrange a everlasting presence in New York. Numerous our artists would not have American illustration or haven’t exhibited within the U.S. in a very long time. Our goal is to provide them a chance to interact with new audiences and provides them the worldwide platform they deserve.”

Templon is the newest blue-chip gallery set to arrange store in Chelsea. Galeria Nara Roesler, which is predicated in Brazil, launched an area within the district final yr, and Los Angeles’s David Kordansky has plans to inaugurate a New York gallery there this spring.