~PERROTIN INVADES ..
FILE UNDER: that’s – more like it !!
FILE UNDER: ATTACK of THE GIANT ART GALLERIES, TAKE TWO.
PARISIAN STYLE.
JR . . legendary French ‘muralist’ at the BRITISH – LAZARIDES GALLERY – ‘OUTSIDERS NY’ – POP-UP SHOW.
LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC. SEPT 26, 2008.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
and that was, way way before, anybody else around here – knew who who is was, but of course !!
BREAKING NEWS !!
FRENCH ART DEALER, EMMANUEL PERROTIN will celebrate the opening of his FIRST NEW YORK CITY BRANCH, with an amusement-park / carnival-themed blow-out PAR-TAY on TUES SEPT 17, 2013.
the new huge, 3 level space is 4,300 sq. ft. and is located at 909 MADISON AVE in the Bank of New York Building (!!) – that would be between &2nd 7 73rd on the UPPER EAST SIDE.
check out: GALERIE PERROTIN
the POST goes on to report: among the ‘hot’ PERROTIN artists participating in the ‘interactive’ carnival will be: KAWS, DANIEL ARSHAM, JR, JEANMICHEL OTHONIEL & JOHAN CRETEN.
the gallery also reps TAKASHI MURAKAMI & MAURIZIO CATTELAN.
see: GALERIE PERROTIN BRINGING ART BASH / NEW YORK POST
yeah, the POST, digitial version – had a make-over.
ARTIST: KAWS. PHOTO: FilmMagic via NEW YORK POST
so, THAT WAS .. KAWS who did those great gigantic MOONMEN at the 2013 MTV MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS.
Shame on MTV. They could have given him some credit. I didn’t see any, did you ?