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Galerie Gmurzynska is an art gallery in based in Zurich, Switzerland that specializes in modern and contemporary art and work by the Russian avant-garde. It has additional branches in Zug and St. Moritz. ==History== The gallery was founded in 1965 in Cologne, Germany by Antonina Gmurzynska. It held an exhibition of Japanese art in its first year. The following year, the gallery presented the work of David Burliuk. Until 1971, the gallery's program focused on the Russian avant-garde. Gallery founder Antonina Gmurzynska reportedly developed contacts with the artists' families, and snuck artwork that was banned by the Soviet regime out of Russia. The gallery buys and sells mostly works by modern and contemporary artists. Occasionally it sells pieces at art fairs by better-known artists such as Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Fernand Leger, Lyonel Feininger, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Sylvester Stallone and Fernando Botero. The gallery works with the estates of Yves Klein, Wifredo Lam, Louise Nevelson, Karl Lagerfeld and Robert Indiana among others. Galerie Gmurzynska made its name as a supplier of avant-garde Russian art to Western collectors. From December 1979 to March 1980, the Galerie exhibited ''Künstlerinnen der russischen Avantgarde/Women Artists of the Russian Avante-Garde 1910-1930'', the first exhibition in the West to concentrate on the work of female Russian avant-garde artists. The exhibition included the work of Liubov Popova and Varvara Stepanova. Krystyna Gmurzynska took over the Cologne gallery with her business partner Mathias Rastorfer following her mother Antonina's death in 1986. In 2005, the gallery relocated from Cologne to Switzerland and opened a gallery on Zürich's Paradeplatz. The gallery arranged with the building's owner to restore the facade, built in 1880, to its original style with large windows. The windows are glazed with armoured glass. The gallery publishes books and catalogues for its exhibitions. In 2010, the gallery held an exhibition entitled "Zaha Hadid and Suprematism", which was designed and curated by Hadid and Patrik Schumacher. The installation was designed to be viewed through the gallery's window on Paradeplatz. The gallery was the first to exhibit collages created by American architect Richard Meier in Europe. Meier had mentioned in conversation to Isabelle Bscher, daughter to gallery owner Krystyna Gmurzynska, that he made collages, and Isabelle, Krystyna and Mathias Rastorfer visited Meier in his New York City apartment where the art was stored.〔 In 2013, the trio hosted shows of Meier's work in Zurich and Zug.〔 In October 2014, a show entitled "Richard Meier: Collages" opened at the State Russian Museum. At the 2014 Art Basel in Miami Beach, to celebrate their 50th anniversary, the gallery's booth was designed by film director Baz Luhrmann, costume designer Catherine Martin and music producer Nellee Hooper. The exhibition was titled "A Kid Could Do That!". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Galerie Gmurzynska」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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