Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980, specializing in modern and contemporary art. Five years later, he expanded his activities to New York, inaugurating his first Chelsea gallery with an exhibition of works from the Pop art collection of Emily and Burton Tremaine. From 1989 to 1996 he owned a gallery at 65 Thompson Street in SoHo with the renowned dealer Leo Castelli, where they showed Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, and other preeminent artists of the postwar generation. Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980, specializing in modern and contemporary art. Five years later, he expanded his activities to New York, inaugurating his first Chelsea gallery with an exhibition of works from the Pop art collection of Emily and Burton Tremaine. From 1989 to 1996 he owned a gallery at 65 Thompson Street in SoHo with the renowned dealer Leo Castelli, where they showed Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, and other preeminent artists of the postwar generation.
Carlos Fentanes: Don’t you see? the fire is not in London, nor NYC, not even Hong Kong. The fire is inside you and also inside me.
The gallery didn’t answer.
If you have the opportunity to ask something to Larry Gagosian, what would it be? “Hey, do you want to take a look at my work? I think it fits in your gallery…” – Of course not! That would be a waste of time and precious experience in Art Marketing.
Larry Gagosian is the most influential gallerist of our times and he don’t need any kind of introduction, so I think in Gagosian as the cherry of the cake after 100 days, if it’s not because for this exercise I think I would never dare to send a message to this gallery. But here I am, and even if I expected that they would not answer it’s good to be brave enough to show your face and say hello to them.
Carlos Fentanes 
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