This is the second segment in a series of interviews with French collectors finding out their ideas and perspectives regarding contemporary art. This time features collectors who are a couple, with a husband who is a doctor and a wife who is an art instructor.
■Profile
This couple -- a doctor and an art instructor -- vigorously travels throughout the world in pursuit of young talent.
A: I'am a surgeon, my wife is a Master in Arts.
A: I'm 54 years of age, I'm collecting art from my 20's.
As my wife works in Art Academy we are collecting together.
A: The high - profile artists are too expensive.
I think it is better to follow the young artists around the world (fairs and galleries ) and so find the better ones,
It is no fun to buy the expensive works when you have the money, it is better to have the "feeling" of the quality in young art.
■Their collection in "French Window" exhibition.
Tatiana Trouvé
Untitled, from the series Remanence
2008
Collection: Alex and Greta Vanden Berghe, Belgium
Courtesy: Johann König Gallery, Berlin
Photo: Watanabe Osamu
■Relevant information
・The answer from the collector participating in "French Window" exhibition
- File01. Jerome and Emmanuelle de Noirmont
- File02. Alex and Greta Vanden Berghe
- File03. Michel Poitevin
- File04. Gilles Fuchs
・The Answer from the artist participating in "French Window" exhibition.
- File01. Mathieu Mercier
- File02. Pierre Ardouvin
- File03. Thomas Hirschhorn
- File04. Camille Henrot
- File05. Claude Closky
- File06. Valerie Belin
- File07. Philippe Mayaux
・"French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize"
・Mori Art Museum on Flickr
Images of "French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize"-1
Images of "French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize"-2
Images of "French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize"-3
