The world’s first major art and antiques fair of the year opens today. BRAFA (Brussels Art Fair) was first held in 1956 and opened to non-Belgian dealers in 1995. Last year 64,000 visitors a ended, many of whom were new and younger than before.
Mao Zedong’s face is one that most people can instantly recognise; over the years, his image has become more than a mere portrait and has acquired the status of an icon, a symbol for revolution. The current exhibition at Omer Tiroche Gallery explores the impact the Communist leader had on artists who grew up during the Cultural Revolution and how his image still impacts Chinese contemporary art.
Un Art Autre, featuring seminal works by artists who were instrumental in forming the radical avant-garde movement that sprung out of Paris in the late 1940s. Un Art Autre (Art of Another Kind) is also known as Art Informel which is often used as an umbrella term that encompasses the development of various European Post-War movements, such as Lyrical Abstraction, Nouvelle École de Paris, Tachisme and the CoBrA Movement.
This year’s Armory Show offered viewers an impressive selection of works by a wide range of artists from around the world. Curated sections emphasised performance and installation, as well as interactions between art and technology. The enduring influence of postwar art and the historic avant grade was abundantly clear in the works from the end of the last century, as well as in more recent creations.
Omer Tiroche Gallery showcases the colourful work of Yayoi Kusama this spring, with an exhibition featuring her most iconic of motifs – the pumpkin. Get up close and personal with a colourful array of her small-scale pumpkin paintings, a collection which has been brought together in one gallery space for the first time in the UK.
Attendu par tous les amoureux des arts graphiques, la 27e édition du Salon du dessin s’annonce cette année encore riche en découvertes.
Three are specialists in modern and contemporary art, including Omer Tiroche Gallery, from London, which brings pieces by artists including Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder (booth range €25,000 to €1m).
Widewalls: Dwarfish or Gargantuan, We Love the Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Paintings!
Whatever their size, the Yayoi Kusama pumpkin works are instantly recognizable. Aside from her equally recognizable polka dots, pumpkins have been a passion of the artist for more than six decades.
Remember that exhibition of massive, spotted pumpkins that Londoners queued around the block for a few year ago? It’s back in town. Sort of. Yayoi Kusama’s artwork will be on show in a smaller-scale offshoot of that exhibition, ‘Small Pumpkin Paintings’, which is exactly what it sounds like. Expect to see psychedelic pumpkins all over your Instagram feed again.
Omer Tiroche, a London-based dealer, opened a space on Conduit Street three years ago in order to be able to participate in fairs like The Armory Show, which still require galleries to have a permanent, brick-and-mortar location in order to exhibit. He brought a series of collages from 1980 and 1981 by Yayoi Kusama, which feature magazine clippings, many of birds, given to her by her former lover Joseph Cornell. Priced at $300,000, they were grabbing a lot of media attention and a lot of interest from collectors from Asia, South America, and New York, said Tiroche.
Keep an eye out for collages by Yayoi Kusama from London’s Omer Tiroche Gallery.
Highlights include a collection of rare collages by Yayoi Kusama at Omer Tiroche Gallery.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (for contemporary and modern art junkies)! As winter storm Quinn hammers the Northeast with heavy snow, Manhattan looks like a Victorian snow globe version of a miniature Gotham City. It almost feels like Christmas, but we are in early March and it’s the VIP preview Day for the Armory Show, New York’s premier international art fair, which will be showcasing outstanding 20th and 21st century artworks by both established and emerging artists. Although tackling the prima donna of U.S. art fairs might seem like a Sisyphean task, I am personally very excited (giddy, complete with the silly smile planted on my face) to attend this binge worthy selection of “the very best” that international Contemporary and Modern art galleries have to offer.
Omer Tiroche has filled his space with Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkin painting made between 1991 and 2003.
A new exhibition in London features a series of small pumpkin paintings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Known for her signature use of pumpkins in artworks ranging from large-scale sculptures to paintings, her latest series is comprised of 3D-effect pumpkins that are contrasted against a flat infinity net background. Named Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings, the exhibition at Omer Tiroche Gallery is open now through June 1st.
Known to art lovers everywhere as the Queen of Polka Dots, Yayoi Kusama is also renowned for another spotty masterpiece: pumpkins. Perhaps the most Instagrammed artist ever, her installations brought thousand people queues to London’s Victoria Miro Gallery last year, and since Blighty’s capital has been craving her creations. Finally, she’ll be back, and the exhibition will consist of Kusama’s small-scale pumpkin paintings that have never been on public display in the UK before.
Mention Yayoi Kusama and among the first things to spring to mind are pumpkins, spots, the colour orange and infinity mirror installations. Collage forms a lesser-known niche of the Japanese artist’s oeuvre, but she produced many over the course of the 1980s and 90s, and thanks to Omer Tiroche Gallery, a selection of pieces from 1980 and 81 will be shown as part of New York’s upcoming Armory Show (and in conjunction with a London exhibition of the same gallery, focusing on Kusama’s small-scale pumpkin paintings).
Yayoi Kusama has gained fame for her infinity rooms that use mirrors so they look like they go on forever (though the queues to see one is similarly eternal). The other thing she’s known for are her polka dot pumpkin sculptures. This Mayfair gallery brings together her smaller pumpkin paintings, works that have never been displayed together in the UK before.
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most important Japanese contemporary artists and her polka dot patterned pumpkins are an instantly recognizable motif of pop art. The troubled artist, a member of the 1960s New York art scene, suffers from hallucinations and OCD and the 3D dots and infinity nets are actually how she experiences the world around her. The repetitive use of the pumpkin motif is usually interpreted as an attempt to control her fears, however Kusama has also accused her former friend Andy Warhol of stealing her idea for his Marilyns! The Omer Tiroche Gallery has created a friendly and playful space to showcase a small but important collection, which is displayed together for the first time in the UK.
Yayoi Kusama’s name is synonymous with two things: polka dots and pumpkins. Since first exhibiting Mirror Room (Pumpkin) at Venice Biennale in 1993, pumpkins of all sizes covered in dots have proliferated in her work. Now an exhibition dedicated to the artist’s small-scale paintings of pumpkins will take place at London’s Omer Tiroche Gallery from 1 March to 1 June.
(pumpkins features prominently). Her art is made to efface the self and it will let you escape the here and now too.
Yayoi Kusama is one of our favourite living artists and we were lucky to see some of her work in Ginza, Tokyo. This month there’s a new exhibition featuring her iconic pumpkin paintings at Omer Tiroche Gallery in Mayfair. Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings displays a range of works together for the first time in the UK. They represent her childhood and the conflict between escapism and reality.
“I was enchanted by their charming and winsome for.” The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said of pumpkins, which she began painting back in the 1940s. This exhibition of small-scale paintings allows for a closer study of a motif that has profound personal significance to the artist, brought to life using her signature polka-dot patterns.
In 2014, at the age of 85, Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) was named the world’s most popular artist. According to museum attendance data, her striking work attracted over 2 million visitors in 12 months. It is unsurprising, then, that most of her exhibitions in recent years have been large-scale and globally resonant affairs. From March, however, a more intimate retrospective is on show at Omer Tiroche Gallery, London.
Singapore is a vibrant hub at the best of times, but it doubles up as a key global centre for contemporary art, as the world focuses on Singapore Art Week. Over the period of seven days the city hosts a major international art fair, Art Stage Singapore as well the many public and commercial art displays. The city welcomes both fine and Urban art, showcasing some of the best art in the region.
In collaboration with the Tiroche DeLeon private collection, ART STAGE will present both established and emerging contemporary artists from Southeast Asia and beyond. This highlights the co-operative efforts of the fair and its participating galleries and collectors. Working alongside the internationally-renowned collection, Rudolf and collector Serge Tiroche have conceptualised a programme that will exhibit works acquired between 2011-2016 at earlier renditions of ART STAGE Singapore. The selected works will not only be re-exhibitied, but will be given new life, re-invigorated as part of a cohesive exhibitionary collection.
“Calder on Paper” is presented by the Omer Tiroche Gallery of London and it brings to the table of ART STAGE Singapore 2018 a unique collection of gouaches on paper by the late American artist Alexander Calder.
In the first ever unique collaboration between ART STAGE Singapore and an internationally recognised private collection and art fund, ART STAGE Singapore 2018 presents a grand selling exhibition of Asian contemporary works from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection.
The Saatchi gallery is currently hosting ‘Salon 003: Calder on Paper: 1960-1976’, which is one half of a spectacular display of Alexander Calder’s work; the other half of the show, ‘Calder on Paper: 1939-1959’ is on display at the Omer Tiroche Gallery, London.
Two major London shows reveal the extraordinary talent of American artist Alexander Calder. The man behind both, with a little help from Saatchi Gallery, is the Mayfair art dealer Omer Tiroche.
I’ve been surrounded by art my entire life; my grandfather had galleries in Paris, Israel and the US, and my father had a gallery in Israel before moving to London and becoming a private dealer.
American artist Alexander Calder is one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of the twentieth century.
One of the largest collections of work by the American artist Alexander Calder has gone on show in the capital – celebrating a technique he explored, alongside his much loved mobile pieces.
Next up is an exhibition of gouaches by Alexander Calder held in collaboration with the Omer Tiroche Gallery.
Omer Tiroche Gallery London, opens a new exhibition of works by three modern Chinese masters.
Tiroche comes from “a bloodline of art dealers”. His father Micky has been a private dealer for more than 20 years – and after spending a summer at Sotheby’s Contemporary department, Omer opened his own gallery on Conduit Street in 2015. His French bulldog, Bamba, can be found roaming the premises, which is devoted to historically significant secondary-market exhibitions.
The four newcomers are the London- and Old Jaffa-based gallery Omer Tiroche Gallery; Bernier/Eliades, which has galleries in Athens and Brussels.
So Frieze Art Fair has left town and that marks the end of Frieze week, but there’s still plenty of great art to see around London.
Picasso is the world’s favourite artist. One of the most influential figures of the 20th century, he casts a hugely long shadow over the art-world – and will do for centuries. This autumn, the National Portrait Gallery mount their major exhibition Picasso Portraits. At the same time, just down the road, a smaller, quieter exhibition is taking place. Mayfair Gallery Omer Tiroche have announced Picasso on Paper.
If the National Portrait Gallery’s fabulous show tempts you to buy, head straight to Mayfair gallery Omer Tiroche Gallery for the Picasso on Paper show, where prices start at £15,000.
Throughout his prolific career, Pablo Picasso made literally thousands of drawings. Some were sketches of ideas that would later evolve into paintings, others were complete in themselves and then there were those dedications – scribbles really – that were handed out to lucky recipients.
Where can you see the most persuasive proof that Pablo Picasso was the finest graphic artist of the 20th century? A great French or Spanish art gallery? The unlikely answer is closer to home.
London’s Omer Tiroche gallery is offering us an intimate look into the world of Pablo Picasso with their 30+ piece retrospective of the 20th century artist’s illustrations from the early 1900’s through his last years.
London gallerist Omer Tiroche is celebrating his recent expansion into Modern art and the rebranding of his gallery with an exhibition of more than 30 important and rarely seen works on paper by Pablo Picasso. Timed to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Picasso Portraits’ exhibition.
Gallerist wunderkind Omer Tiroche is sending waves across the London art scene with his recently opened gallery in Mayfair. Born into the art world, Omer’s father has worked as a private dealer in London for the past two decades and had previously founded the Tircohe Auction House in Israel, and his uncle is co-founder of the Tiroche DeLeon collection.
A ravishing new show brings together unseen works by Niki de Saint Phalle, the French sculptor who turned childhood trauma into explosions of shape and colour.
Who? As a young girl in the 1930s who had recently moved with her family from France to the US, Niki de Saint Phalle was expelled from a prestigious boarding school in New York City for meticulously painting fig leaves red on the school’s statuary – a cardinal sin, as far as the governing body was concerned. Little did they know, the sense of rebellion which drove the creative act, fuelled by a desire to beautify and add joyful colour to the world around her – was to become a recurring theme threading through Saint Phalle’s personal life and artistic career.
Lively, chromatic, female: Niki de Saint Phalle’s works are instantly recognizable. The French-born, American-raised artist is one of the most significant female and feminist artists of the 20th century, and one of the few to receive recognition in the male-dominated art world during her lifetime.
At first sight, Omer Tiroche Gallery is filled with a menagerie of joyful, celebratory and colourful works: gouache paintings and crayon drawings; sculptures and reliefs studded with coloured glass mosaic; ornate mirrors and intricate yet simple jewellery – all infused with a sense of playfulness and naivety, like that of a child. But look more closely and there is more to the works on display than meets the eye.
At a time when many central London galleries – particularly in Cork Street – are closing it is exciting to find a new venture in the heart of traditional Mayfair. Omer Tiroche Contemporary Art opened just over a year ago in February 2015, but already seems a well-established presence on Conduit Street.
Curated by Helen Pheby of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, ‘Je Suis Une Vache Suisse’ collates a broad range of pieces by the French artist, who rose to fame in the early 1960s following the success of her Shooting Paintings series, created by firing at a combination of canvases and paint containers.
Whether imbued with passionate rage, playful eccentricity or pure exuberance, Niki de Saint Phalle’s works share a wonderful vibrancy that comes across strongly in Omer Tiroche Gallery’s latest exhibition, which charts the development of her œuvre from the 1950s to her death in 2002.
Discover exciting new modern British and contemporary art gallerists at London Art Fair. Omer Tiroche is the bright, new comer, having opened his Mayfair gallery in February. Tiroche has surprising gems including a Damien Hirst spot painting, Anthony Caro desert bronze and a charming Graham Sutherland surrealist landscape.
Pennsylvanian-born sculptor Alexander ‘Sandy’ Calder is most known for his kinetic sculptures, or tapis. However, the late artist also experimented with elements of soft sculpture and tapestry. Opened last month, Alexander Calder: Tapestries And Their Gouaches, explores the story behind one of the Calder’s last projects.
Pennsylvanian-born sculptor Alexander ‘Sandy’ Calder is most known for his kinetic sculptures, or tapis. However, the late artist also experimented with elements of soft sculpture and tapestry. Opened last month, Alexander Calder: Tapestries And Their Gouaches, explores the story behind one of Calder’s last projects.
Four tapis and a hammock designed by Alexander Calder were shown alongside related gouache works at Omer Tiroche Gallery in London this autumn. The Mayfair show coincided with the opening of ‘Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture’ – a Major retrospective at Tate Modern.
It’s one of the biggest events on the art work calendar: Frieze London is in full swing, featuring work from over 1,000 contemporary artists presented by 160 of the top galleries in the world.
Hardly a month goes by without news of dealers setting up in London, and the latest to be charmed by British skies is the Italian Nicolò Cardi of Milan, creator of Cardi Black Box, the contemporary arm of the renowned family firm of postwar and modern art dealers. And Cardi isn’t doing small: he is taking on a townhouse just two doors away from Zwirner at 22 Grafton Street. Nearby in Conduit Street, another young’un is opening a gallery: Omer Tiroche, 23.
Second generations bring Korean art to London. Two new galleries are bringing Korean art to Mayfair. Omer Tiroche, the son of the Israeli collector-dealer Micky Tiroche, has opened OTCA (Omer Tiroche Contemporary Art) on Conduit Street. His first exhibition, “Redefining Paint: Germany and Austria since 1970” closes on 1st May, with the next show dedicated to Korean Works from his collection.