Pastures new for Perrotin?

Is Emmanuel Perrotin considering opening a new gallery space in Les Moulins? Last week, the French web publication Le Quotidien de l’Art reported that the leading French dealer may inaugurate an outpost in the small village located in the Seine-et-Marne region, around sixty eight kilometres to the east of Paris. “Le Quotidien de l’Art seems to confirm something that is for the moment an hypothesis. We don’t know if it will become reality,” Perrotin tells The Art Newspaper, stressing that the story is “only speculation”. This rural setting seems an unusual location for the Perrotin empire, which encompasses two spaces in the Marais neighbourhood of Paris, a venue in Hong Kong and a gallery on New York’s Upper East Side. If the French heavyweight dealer does decide to set up shop there, he’ll be in good company as the Italian gallery, Galleria Continua, runs two sites at Les Moulins, including a gallery housed in a former paper mill. “[There is] indeed an ongoing project, but nothing is decided or finalised. If it happens, and we know that Emmanuel’s commitment is absolute, it will be of course terrific for Galleria Continua,” says a gallery spokesman. In 2014, Galerie Perrotin held an exhibition across its Paris venues dedicated to the Chinese artist Chen Zhen, which was organised by Galleria Continua.