Hong Kong gallery De Sarthe has introduced it can relocate to a bigger house within the area this fall. The brand new gallery will open simply down the street, within the Wong Chuk Cling neighborhood, on September Twentieth.
The ten,000-square-foot gallery is situated in Vita Tower, within the metropolis’s Southside artwork district, an space with rising numbers of galleries opening. De Sarthe’s earlier house within the neighborhood opened there in 2017. De Sarthe’s new gallery will embrace separate exhibition areas devoted to modern artwork and Twentieth-century masterworks. Based in Paris in 1977, the gallery has operated areas in the USA and throughout Asia. This yr, De Sarthe will have fun its fifteenth anniversary in Hong Kong.
Pascal de Sarthe, the gallery’s founder, known as the transfer “a significant growth that may permit us to supply bigger and extra formidable packages.” He added, in an announcement: “The world is evolving quickly, and expertise is reshaping how artwork is made and skilled. But, even on this digital age, in the interim, the bodily gallery stays important, an area the place artists and audiences can interact in significant dialogue, whether or not the work is digital or bodily.”
Current years have seen the gallery’s modern program concentrate on artists exploring the social implications of latest applied sciences. On the similar time, its advisory enterprise has remained lively within the worldwide Trendy and post-war markets. The brand new location’s parallel areas will intention to juxtapose modern works with traditionally important artwork, providing viewers a broader contextual lens.
The gallery closed its present house on July twenty seventh and will likely be present process renovations on the brand new house till September nineteenth. Particulars on the inaugural exhibitions will likely be introduced forward of the reopening.
