00:00 Michel-Georges Gales is very much asked worldwide meanwhile.
00:04 So choosing him for a show of Paris was kind of, let's say, a gift to the Paris collectors
00:12 because you can find like five very rare works, last copies you can buy.
00:20 And he is that much asked for because his works, his photos are much closer to paintings, to drawings.
00:30 They are very artistic and they convince and they touch people.
00:36 And that is simply because he uses a simple technique.
00:43 He has this focus and out of focus parts in the pictures and people are coming to us all the time like,
00:51 "Is he using models?" or "Is he working with a computer?"
00:55 He is not and that's so striking because he is working in an old-fashioned way.
00:59 He has a middle format camera and the only thing that he does technically is he shifts the plate where the negative is on.
01:07 So when the photo is taken there are focus and unfocused parts and in the result when you see the large photo
01:15 you have this strange feeling that there is a model you are looking at.
01:20 Right, he has a fan club and recently we were driving together for an opening of Michel-Georges' work in Kunsthalle in Erfurt
01:34 and I told him about this and he was amused.
01:38 I was kind of happy that he was amused because when you click that website you can see that there is a lot of ambitious photographers
01:47 and what they are very proud of is that they create Michel-Georges Galle-like photos,
01:54 which is actually, to be honest, ridiculous and there is no use in that.
01:58 But it also shows on a different level that his work is not only convincing, it is also inspiring creative people
02:07 and that is a very good sign.
02:09 We have also Raisa Venables from New York City.
02:13 She is three years younger than Michel-Georges Galle, born in '77, and her works are also very much asked now.
02:22 She shows mainly rooms or interiors and those rooms or interiors she shows that go along with strong colors
02:33 and that attracts people a lot.
02:35 Mostly it is also women that come to us saying "Oh, I love this work"
02:41 and the color is kind of an anchor point to understand her photos.
02:45 The starting point is a middle format camera, just straight photography analogous
02:51 and then she has the different prints, like here it is consisting of 20 prints
02:55 and then she scans that and works it out in the computer so that you don't see it.
02:59 And she does a color too?
03:01 Yes, but the color is always as it is, but she exaggerates it.
03:06 So I know this staircase, it is in Berlin, myself, it is actually painted red, but she exaggerates it.
03:13 Same with this, this is the colors but the yellow is improved.
03:21 The gallery was found in late 2000 and we started our seventh year now and now it is really a pleasure.
03:31 The beginning was hard and as you know Berlin is very much the place to be with galleries.
03:38 I think we have about 400 galleries in the city right now and that is kind of challenging
03:45 because I think we did our homework so we are aware of the competition
03:50 and this is encouraging you in your everyday life in the gallery to find good artists,
03:57 to create great shows and to do good work.
04:01 What is your upcoming exhibition?
04:04 The next exhibition we will have follows on the road.
04:08 It is an exhibition with Italian artist Paolo Consorti and it is called "Between Hell and Heaven"
04:15 and it gives new mixed media works, it is photo and painting and even a video, his first one he created.
04:24 Of course there are always shows on and after the fair means before the fair
04:30 so when I finish the show in Paris we will meet in Cologne.
04:36 My assistant already sets up the booth and we directly continue with Art Cologne
04:41 and then there will be again Scope Miami, ARCO is following in February and Kiev in May
04:50 and there will be Art Brussels in between so the agenda is already crowded.
04:56 Do you still like traveling?
04:59 Traveling is a topic, being away from the family is a one side and we have two children,
05:05 that is not always so much a pleasure but traveling is very inspiring
05:10 and being in the art business means you meet people all over the world,
05:15 it feels like a family, you come to an art fair and you say hello,
05:18 oh I didn't see you for a while or you make appointments for the next art fair somewhere.
05:23 So it's like a group of people who work wherever they are located but they are networked together
05:33 and we meet all over the world and you even start to found habits,
05:39 like I have a fashion shop in Miami I like a lot so whenever I'm there I buy like seven shirts and two pants or so
05:48 and so you establish to find your own places in the world.
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