The former dealer and collector goes against the flow. While most others accumulate, he is thinking of trimming his collection down to fewer than 100 key pieces.
Charles Riva’s interest in small paintings – the basis of the latest show in his Brussels space – is undoubtedly a sign of changing tastes for the great Franco-Italian collector, who has lived in New York since he was 19. By the age of 12, comic books and Pop Art had already introduced young Charles to the "mythology" of the American dream. It has never left him. He still promotes this vision through the "Sutton Lane" brand, which opened in the early 2000s in London, Paris, and, later, Brussels, where he exhibited his own collection in 2009. Six years later he opened a second space, Riva Project, which focuses on sculpture. But Mr. Riva dreams of a more malleable collection without delusions of grandeur.
Is it easy living in New York when most of your collection is in Brussels? I still have a few pieces at home and in my New York office.…
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