Culture / London
Playing to the gallery
Owning a gallery or three demands an unwavering eye on art’s horizon while honing a familiar and welcoming touch with the artists, collectors and fairs that make the industry tick. New Yorker (via Köln) David Zwirner is a master of making it all hang together.
David Zwirner is the youthful 50-year-old art dealer whose name sits above the door of three galleries: two in New York and one in London. Zwirner is considered among a supergroup of gallerists with international reach and brand-name recognition, along with Larry Gagosian, Marian Goodman and White Cube’s Jay Jopling. The art world works in mysterious ways: it could be said that rather than simply owning a work by Luc Tuymans or Marlene Dumas, the sign of having entered the upper crust of collectors is having bought it from Zwirner. It is him…
