Franz Petto

Maison Contemporain Showroom

Paris, Frankreich

Maison Contemporain is an online marketplace and art gallery. The gallery is specialized in the promotion of artists; and advises on the purchase of art. They have a well-sorted offer on established and emerging artists...

Living in the Past - Mixed Group Show

Cupola Gallery, Middlewood Road, Sheffield S6 1TD, Vereinigtes Königreich

Living with the Past
16 July - 27 August
Opening Friday 7:30pm 15 July
We live between tomorrow and yesterday. The past is always with us acting as foundations for our future. Living with the Past is our exploration of these foundations whether they are cultural, personal, physical or even geological. We have gathered together artists that traverse the past.

RISE ART

The Closed Gallery

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The Closed Gallery is an art concept I joined. In my case, it's more like an asylum. Well, by closing everything, the asylum is one that extends worldwide.  There's not much to see in a closed asylum, so you won't see much in this gallery. I really feel sorry for you as an audience...  Of course, you will die soon, if you haven't already, God bless you...

Closed Gallery is a 1969 piece consisting of three invitations to gallery shows in Amsterdam, Turin, and Los Angeles printed on simple white cards. They informed the recipients that during the exhibition, the gallery would be closed. “It’s the purest form of this notion of what the physicality of art is and what art is really all about. One doesn’t need to even have the gallery space", said David Platzker, who sent out numerous announcement cards worldwide, each saying simply “During the exhibition the gallery will be closed”. “I got permission from Robert [Barry] to do the show,” Platzker said. “I asked him if he would lend me copies of the three prior announcement cards and he said, ‘Why would you want them? There is no show. I don’t want people to come to the gallery because the gallery is closed.’

Sold to a collector in NY