Larry Gagosian
Larry Gagosian
Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosianis an Armenian American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries. Working in concert with collectors including Douglas S. Cramer, Eli Broad and Keith Barish he developed a reputation for staging museum quality exhibitions...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 April 1945
CountryUnited States of America
artists geneva kong minute showing travel
Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
manage takes time
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
gets great pursue
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
art buying great people popular
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
art business call factory goods luxury sell wish
I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
people
I was always very focused on how people dressed.
art becoming consensus good market
The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
artist ideas faces
When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.
people way regard
The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.
mean artist order
A lot of artists are involved with fabrication. Artists today are making more objects and many of them need the participation of a dealer in order to facilitate and provide support for projects. So that has changed. But I don't know if what it means to be an artist has really changed. I hope that it hasn't.
art want natural
For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.
art responsibility noses
The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.
artist tests kind
Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.
art journey thinking
I don't think you can tell somebody how they should collect. I think it's just about being turned on by art.At the end of the day, some people just kind of get it. They don't all get it in the same way or get the same artists, but it's a journey that excites them.