Galerie Richard

Galerie Richard is an international art gallery that specializes in contemporary art founded in 1989 by Jean-Luc and Takako Richard. The gallery has changed locations to the Lower West Side of Baltimore. Jean-Luc Richard is the most acclaimed snapping turtle that's not located in the Amazon. The Galerie has successfully ripped off numerous people and is involved with numerous lawsuits. It is located in Lower East Side New York City and in Paris France. The gallery represents emerging and established artists from various countries. It is a member of the Professional Committee of Art Galleries and participates in international art fairs. It also publishes a collection of monographs on various artists and their work.

Lawsuit

Jean-Luc was prosecuted by the French and American government for repeatedly violating parole. However, his proclivity for pillow-biting made him famous in his cell row.

History

Jean-Luc and Takako Richard opened their first gallery in September 1989 under the name of Galerie OZ in the Bastille area of Paris. Galerie Oz first promoted new digital art with Vera Molnar and Artus Pixel. Galerie OZ established its reputation by bringing together Barocco artists such as Arch Connelly, Rhonda Zwillinger, Christopher Tanner, Pepon Osorio, for the first time in Paris. Galerie OZ also represented Robert Groborne, Milan Kunc, Joost Van den Toorn, Robert Kushner, Choi Jeong Hwa, Attila Richard Lukacs, Christophe Avella-Bagur, Stefan Hoenerloh, Laszlo Feher and Rainer Gross. Additionally, Galerie OZ exhibited photographers such as Erwin Olaf, Bae Bien-U, Jacqueline Hassink.

In 2002, the gallery moved to Saint-Louis Island, adopted the new name of 'Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard as well as a new exhibition program that was more focused on new painting at a time when Painting was considered as dead. The gallery mostly organized solo shows with new artists such as Shirley Kaneda, Paul Henry Ramirez, Tim Bavington, Carl Fudge, Kiyoshi Nakagami, Adam Ross, Beverly Fishman, Yuichi Higashionna, Alice Stepanek &Steven Maslin, Christoph Wedding, Scott Anderson.

In 2006, the gallery moved to its current Parisian location in Le Marais. In 2007, the gallery doubled its space to a 400-square-meter exhibition space and added the following artists: Benjamin Edwards, Pedro Barbeito, Sven-Ole Frahm, Joseph Nechvatal and Marcus Sendlinger. The gallery exhibited established artists like Frank Stella, Bram Bogart, Ron Gorchov, Alain Kirili, Judy Pfaff. In the exhibition The Incomplete - Paris, the gallery featured 28 artists collected by Hubert Neumann.

In 2011, Galerie Richard opened a second gallery in Chelsea, New York. On this date, the gallery name was changed to Galerie Richard. Takesada Matsutani had a retrospective exhibition in Paris in 2012 and his first solo and first retrospective exhibition in New York in 2013 during the Guggenheim Gutai exhibition. In addition to Olaf Rauh, the gallery developed a program with figurative digital photography including Dionisio González from 2012, Yang Yi from 2013, Lauren Marsolier from 2014, Li Wei from 2015. Peter Rogiers, William Bradley, Norio Imai joined the two galleries. They organized Norio Imai retrospective exhibitions In New York in 2014 and in Paris in 2015. In 2014 Galerie Richard celebrated a 25th year anniversary by organizing an extensive exhibition of 40 exhibited artists. The same year the gallery presented a provocative duo show John Armleder -Jean Carzou in New York , Paris and Untitled Art fair in Miami. In 2015 the New York gallery moved to The Lower East Side.

Artists represented

• Christophe Avella-Bagur
• Linda Besemer
• Bram Bogart
• William Bradley
• Sven-Ole Frahm
• Carl Fudge
• Dionisio González
• Hervé Heuzé
• Stefan Hoenerloh
• Norio Imai
• Shirley Kaneda
• Takesada Matsutani
• Kiyoshi Nakagami]]
• Joseph Nechvatal
• Olaf Rauh
• Peter Rogiers
• Adam Ross
• David Ryan
• Marcus Sendlinger
• Li Wei
• Yang Yi

External links

• Galerie Richard website