00:00 We've met already two times in a gallery in Basel and two weeks ago in London.
00:06 So, was your participation in Scope London a success for the gallery?
00:12 Your turn, please.
00:14 Oh, I thought you would ask me "Was it?"
00:16 No, London was great. It was a fun project, a grungy, highly collectible, very interesting fair.
00:25 We had a great time. This is not the first time that we're having a great time, so we just hope it can go on like this.
00:32 Well, really nothing to add. London is a great place and we had a good time and met some interesting people.
00:42 And you had a good time because there was a lot of work?
00:45 Well, it was very, very successful for us. Meeting new people is always one...
00:52 There are two things about the fair. If you do a Scope fair, which has a grunge effect, and it is in East London,
01:01 we certainly didn't have the crowd that Friis got, but then we got collectors and they had time.
01:09 They expressly made their way to come to the Truman Brewery.
01:13 And what is very important as well, you also sometimes get a talk with an artist.
01:19 This is what we've seen also in New York earlier this year.
01:22 And so for us, an off-fair is a wonderful element because not only can we sell well and present the artist,
01:28 but we actually get into a more creative surrounding.
01:31 So we're not in the highly, highly commercial time and we sometimes even meet new artists and set up collaborations.
01:38 There's a saying that when you're in a fair and an artist comes by, you do not have time to look at him, right?
01:44 And they're trying to present their dossiers. But if you do it right, it can be a real chance.
01:50 So what do you expect from the show-off in Paris?
01:54 Just the best. I mean, this evening, tonight was just enormous. Very good people. A lot of...
02:01 Still enormous.
02:03 A big crowd. And not only quantity, but also quality.
02:07 And I think this is what really is what we have to pay respect to show-off.
02:14 And the organisation is... They really got a good crowd here.
02:18 And it was fun to prepare it. And it's important what kind of atmosphere you have.
02:23 And for 28 galleries to be in such a central spot helps us a lot more.
02:28 So compared to London, this time we get heaps of people and we get good people again.
02:33 And we've never started a preview as well as today.
02:37 So we just hope it's going to stay like that for the whole week.
02:42 And it's Paris, G.
02:44 And we love Paris.
02:47 It's a good place to be, yeah.
02:50 Okay. So do you like travelling? Because there are a lot of fairs.
02:56 Well, if we would not have fun travelling, we would not be able to do this.
03:03 So I think we have to say yes, we do.
03:07 And you have to accept all the very interesting conditions of travel.
03:11 Because you're working and you're a young gallery.
03:14 And you have all these things to bring with, transport, organise.
03:19 You have to change adapters so many times, it's unreal.
03:23 But maybe we must be crazy to want to do this.
03:27 But so far it's been a lot of fun.
03:29 Where is your next fair?
03:31 Oh, this is going to be Vienna.
03:35 Oh, are we doing that in Vienna?
03:37 Yes, yes.
03:38 We're doing so many, we don't know.
03:40 It's going to be a small fair participation in Vienna.
03:43 And then one of the highlights is Miami.
03:47 And to be there in December really was from the beginning a goal for us.
03:52 So I think this is going to be the last highlight of the year.
03:56 So first you can give us some names.
03:59 So which artists did you bring from Paris?
04:01 So name-wise, with the video illustrator project at the beginning of the stand,
04:06 it's Beatrice Valentin-Amrard.
04:08 She's a French painter but has done a hundred videos,
04:12 which is a report on the body system.
04:14 And we have stills and a whole video illustrator with 25 videos,
04:18 which are inserted into cell phones.
04:21 And we have a New York artist who is talking about
04:24 how does the Wi-Fi transport into an image,
04:28 which is interesting because it's a dialogue we've had before,
04:31 but he does it in a very, very funky way.
04:33 It's iPod sculptures and web access points.
04:36 They're as colorful and bright as fun as they can ever be.
04:40 We have a Swiss photographer who gave us an Australian landscape that we brought here.
04:47 We have Luz Andres Hagenbach.
04:49 We have Margret Weber-Hunger, whom we started to show one year ago
04:53 and who is now internationally seen in museums and galleries.
04:58 So the project of this series is almost coming to its end by this year.
05:02 We have Laurent Aginin, which is the one where we're standing,
05:05 who is a French painter and draughtsman.
05:08 We like his urban landscapes very much,
05:10 and he, especially for this fair, painted some new works.
05:15 So this is one of the things when you travel so much
05:18 that you can actually meet with the artist on the spot.
05:21 He can prepare very special things,
05:24 and collaboration-wise, this makes it even better.
05:29 And then we also have Will Ryman, a New York sculpture maker.
05:35 This is the grey big figure in the entrance.
05:38 We have more work by him, and we're extremely pleased to be collaborating with him.
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