Galerie Sardine is having a moment in Paris and New York—for those lucky enough to catch it!
The New York–based space and collaborative curatorial project was started by artist Joe Bradley and wife Valentina Akerman in an historic Amagansett farmhouse over the summer, with the intention of producing timely, well-placed “nomadic” exhibitions that would put the work of painters, sculptors, and makers in dialogue with each other in domestic spaces.
“Sardine had been bouncing in my head for a while: an artist project space in a historical domestic environment, away from the white box, with a compromised scale, full of limitations and full of personality, with art and objects informing one another in an unassuming, intimate vernacular,” Akerman told ARTnews by email.
Those heading to the City of Lights for Art Basel Paris next week could be among the first to view the gallery’s inaugural pop-up project, titled “Naturalisms,” Exploring human perception of nature, the exhibition, running October 15 to 18, will be staged on the third floor of a Belle Epoque apartment at 108 Rue de Rennes.
The show features landscape paintings by Ken Resseger, ceramics and paintings by Hadi Falapishi, ceramics by Erin and Sam Falls, figurative paintings by Justin Bradshaw, and a performance by Teresa Rotschopf.
“As a Latin American and a trained architect, I am a product of modernism,” Akerman said. “Objects—whether a chair, a lamp, or a plate—their environment, and the paintings or sculptures in it are all in constant dialogue, interacting. Nothing lives in a silo, all of the hierarchies get blurred and the different aspects are conversing.”
She continued, “Paris, the city of salons, offers a perfect context for Sardine. I imagined that Sardine would always travel, get taken away to new places and find different points of view, different moods, and different relationships.”
For those Stateside, the permanent Amagansett space offers a unique exhibition space in an historic 1708 farmhouse. On view this fall are works by Steve DiBenedetto, Green River Project, and Erin and Sam Falls.
