Mon. June 17, 12:15PM
Join Kendell Geers for a monthly luncheon with a special guest and a passionate insight into why Art Matters. This month meet Barth Johnson from Wilde Gallery.
Join us for another exciting Art Matters table where we will discuss how Barth deals with the complex needs of megastar artists whose needs are larger than life. Learn about the real life history of Oscar Wilde’s family in exile and how Barth combines his passion for gastronomy and wine with running one of the most successful galleries in Switzerland. This Art Matters lunch will be particularly exciting because we will discuss the Marcel Duchamp book we just made together. Witness first hand how an artist and his gallery work together over lunch and the reasons why Art Matters.
Barth Johnson took over Guy Bärtschi gallery in 2019 with a vision to develop Geneva’s oldest contemporary art gallery into an international hub of art, wine and a restaurant set to win Michelin honours. He changed the gallery name to Wilde in reference to his former wife’s family who are the direct descendants of Oscar Wilde. With spaces in Geneva, Zurich and an architectural statement in Basel designed by the French architect Andrée Putman, Wilde Gallery represents artists like Marina Abramovic, Adel Abessemed, Jan Fabre and Not Vital.
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