Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and Broadway 1602, in collaboration with Tel Aviv–based Tempo Rubato and Zurich-based Freymond-Guth (which is also expanding to Basel in June), inaugurate new spaces in Harlem this month. It’s not the first time ambitious gallerists have set up shop in the neighborhood—Christian Haye ran the Project gallery, in a former disco on 126th Street from 1998 until 2002—but the blue-chip presence is unprecedented.The new joint effort, located at 211 and 213 East 121st Street, “is the fruition of a long relationship,” says Tempo Rubato’s Guillaume Rouchon, who worked at both Broadway 1602 and the Daniel Reich gallery before opening his Tel Aviv space in 2011. “Chelsea is lacking in spirit, and the Lower East Side is completely saturated with young galleries,” he says of the decision to open in Harlem.For the inaugural exhibition, Broadway 1602 is presenting a show that “creates a new context for George Segal’s seminal pieces,” explains gallery founder Anke Kempkes. “We are showing his work alongside that of international contemporary artists such as Pawel Althamer and Tom Burr, and creating unexpected juxtapositions with the work of other artists from the 1960s, such as Idelle Weber, Rosemarie Castoro, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, and Lenora de Barros.” Tempo Rubato’s inaugural, salon-style presentation includes New York–based artists Tomer Aluf, Paul P., and Oren Pinhassi.
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