Braving the health crisis, on 19 October Vanessa Guo and her partner Jean-Mathieu Martini will open a new gallery, Marguo, on rue des Minimes. A promising Chinese artist, Zhang Yunyao, is on the programme.
How did this project come about? My partner Jean-Baptiste Martini spoke with the developers of a new real estate project in the Marais quarter in Paris. Our project for Marguo, a combination of both our names, convinced them and they gave us one of the largest spaces available. That’s why I left Hauser & Wirth, where I used to manage the Asia section, in July. It was a quick decision, although quitting a stable job in the middle of a health crisis wasn’t easy.
You did leave a good job! I started at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2016. I was already travelling from New York to Asia at least once a month to develop the presence of artists in the region. This led to the opening of Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong in 2018. We had some really fantastic shows at the gallery, such as those devoted to Marc Bradford and Philip Guston. We participated in the Louise Bourgeois travelling…
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