Gary Tatintsian

Gary Tatintsian (born 1954) an art dealer, owner of the Gary Tatintsian Gallery.

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Gary Tatintsian

Life and career

After leaving the Soviet Union to Germany in 1989, Gary Tatintsian opened Tatunz art gallery in Berlin. The gallery presented works of Russian and Western contemporary artists.

In 1998, Gary Tatintsian moved to New York City, where he continued the gallery business and opened Gary Tatintsian Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

In 2005, Gary Tatintsian opened a new gallery space in the center of Moscow. The Gallery worked with Western art, Russian avant-garde early 20th century, photography and design.

Moscow gallery presented works of such artists as Damien Hirst, Joel-Peter Witkin, Tal R, Peter Halley, Yasumasa Morimura, Christopher Wool, Peter Doig, Daniel Richter, Jonathan Meese, Cecily Brown, Georg Baselitz, Chris Ofili, Tony Matelli and George Condo.

In September 2013, new gallery space was opened in Moscow on Serebryanicheskaya embankment, Moscow. Since then, the gallery regularly hosts exhibitions of contemporary artists, including solo exhibition by German artist Anselm Reyle, a group exhibition by John Miller, Tony Matelli and Olaf Breuning; solo exhibition by Wim Delvoye (artist's works were shown in parallel with Pushkin Museum at the same time); solo exhibition by Lee Ufan and Russian avangard artist Evgeny Chubarov (memorial show, dedicated to artist’s 80th anniversary).

By the tenth anniversary of Gallery in Moscow, Gary Tatintsian collected exhibition of world-known contemporary artists, including Francis Bacon, Wim Delvoye, KAWS, Chuck Close, Carroll Dunham, George Condo, Mike Kelley, Tony Matelli, Malcolm Morley and Peter Saul. The show reflected the different stages of formation of figurative art for the past 30 years.

In 2016-2017 Gary Tatintsian shown personal exhibitions by American artist Peter Saul with "You better call Saul" show (April 2016), by London designer and architect Ron Arad (November 2016), by British artist Damien Hirst (March 2017), by American artist Peter Halley (June 2017) and by Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami with "Land of Mirrors" show.

In 2018, the Gallerist presented a personal shows by British artist Mat Collishaw ("Albion" February 2018), by world-renowned artist and photographer Vik Muniz (June 2018), by Belgian neo-conceptual artist Wim Delvoye (November 2018).

In 2019 Gary Tatintsian collected a group exhibition "Naturally Naked" featuring the works by George Condo, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Tony Matelli, Bjarne Melgaard, Yasumasa Morimura and Peter Saul (August 2019).

Quotes
  • «A great artist can understand only a great artist»[1] — Gary Tatintsian, 2015.
  • «Any money that is invested in an artist, brings either applause or disappointment»[2] — Gary Tatintsian, 2015.
  • «Chubarov in his work predicted the rebirth habitual gesture of abstraction in new intellectual form, with its characteristic alphabet, own language and drama, where the image and concept of his incarnation become one». - Gary Tatintsian about Evgeny Chubarov.
  • «His abstract compositions - a border state, duality, a return to the origins of form, conflict and harmony, masculine and feminine. This is the theme of death and birth, interweaving image of human flesh with objects unknown inner space opening look at the new laws» - Gary Tatintsian about Evgeny Chubarov.
  • «Collector is not obliged to own gallery, but he has to monitor the situation in the arts market no less than a gallery owner»[3] — Gary Tatintsian, 2007.
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References
  1. Interview Russia Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine — 2015. — 30 апр.
  2. // The Art Newspaper Russia. — 2015. — 13 мая.
  3. // Kommersant newspaper. — 2007. — 30 янв.
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