Le Journal Interviews

Your passion for art collecting started with African art. What was the turning point that made you want to devote the collection to contemporary art and when did the adventure begin? Nothing was planned really. In 2007, we happened to be walking around FIAC (French International Contemporary Art ...

Posted: February 4th, 2016

Category: Interviews

Andy Hei About the Makings of a Successful International Art Fair. So how does one get to become the director of an art fair? Before I started this fair in 2006, I was helping different dealers with their involvement in other similar fairs, so I started from standing in the booth and helping to ...

Posted: February 2nd, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Interviews, Market

Coming from France and then living in China, their aesthetic styles and the histories of their aesthetic traditions are very different, and yet you have managed to combine them together seamlessly. How hard was that for you to take something from both sides and be able to bring it together? ...

Posted: February 2nd, 2016

Category: Interviews

Kim Lim was born in Singapore but lived in London most part of her life. How is her art rooted to Singapore and South East Asian culture in general? My mother was always very aware of her roots and upbringing. Any idea that she somehow abandoned or divorced herself from her heritage is completely ...

Posted: February 2nd, 2016

Category: Interviews

Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra are a dynamic artist duo based in Delhi, who have been collaborating since 2004. Trained in design, their work incorporates symbols and images from popular culture which appeals to a global audience, addressing universal themes of identity, consumerism and change. The ...

Posted: February 2nd, 2016

Category: Interviews, News

Collector Guillaume Levy-Lambert credits art with changing his life dramatically. The change began in 1999 after he and his partner, Mark Goh, encountered “Desk Calendar”, an iconic painting by Roy Lichtenstein that serendipitously includes their birth dates.  The French-Singaporean couple ...

Posted: February 2nd, 2016

Category: Interviews

Born in 1975 in Lisbon, Adriana Molder has developed a unique body of work consisting of black and white portraits using India ink on tracing paper. Inspired by iconic figures mostly taken from films, Adriana Molder continues to incorporate in her work various references from literature to ...

Posted: January 27th, 2016

Category: Interviews

You have been collecting art for more than 30 years and you share this passion with your wife Catriona. How did it start and what was the first artwork you bought? Simon Mordant: I grew up in London and didn’t have an artistic upbringing. I bought my first picture when I was a teenager at a ...

Posted: January 27th, 2016

Category: Interviews

The DSL Collection was founded in 2005 but you have been collecting for more than 25 years. How did the adventure begin? This adventure began when we traveled to China because my brother in law was moving there. We were totally shocked by the city and we thought that we should start a Chinese ...

Posted: January 27th, 2016

Category: Interviews

For Chinese artist Nan Qi, building his art perspective took him along a pathway dotted with Chinese and Western ideas and ideology. When you ponder upon it, everything evolves from a single atom, building into a molecule, an entity, a thought, a community, a collaboration, a society, and beyond. ...

Posted: January 27th, 2016

Category: Interviews, Voices

Dane Patterson is an American artist using photo-realistic details to depict meticulously staged disarray in his drawings. He takes inspiration from objects and begins his creating process by photographing models precariously and playfully covered in random objects. With his particular drawing ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

Category: Interviews

Galerie MiniMasterpiece is a Paris-based gallery that works with the world’s most renowned contemporary sculptors to create wearable art, in the form of jewellery. The gallery was founded in early 2012 by Esther de Beaucé, who caught on the idea from her mother. Today, Ms. de Beaucé and Mr. ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Interviews