The gallerists have preferred staying in Paris and keeping things in the family rather than opening up outposts abroad. Today they run one of the city’s Top Ten galleries and have made a name for themselves on the international scene.
How would you describe the adventure that began 30 years ago? Nathalie Vallois. You used the right word: "adventure"! We opened the gallery during a crisis in September 1990. We’ve been through some tough times, to say the least, but we’ve hung on and I don’t have the feeling at all that 30 years have gone by. I’m as enthusiastic as ever. Georges-Philippe Vallois. True, we opened in 1990, but I think we started building our true identity in 1992-1993. Since then, we’ve held the first gallery shows in France of artists such as Alain Bublex (1992), Gilles Barbier (1995), Keith Tyso (1997), Julien Berthier, Virginie Yassef (2002), Pilar Albarracín (2009), Henrique Oliveira (2011), Taro Izumi (2013), the Iranian duo Peybak (2015) and Lucie Picandet (2016). We also pioneered how the California scene is viewed, with Paul McCarthy, Martin Kersels, Richard Jackson…
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