Nathan Chicheportiche: Building Bridges Between Artists And Collectors
Jess BauldryPhotographs: Naderi Photography / Forbes Luxembourg
The article
In Forbes Luxembourg, Jess Bauldry devotes a profile to Nathan Chicheportiche, a collector turned gallerist, and to Galerie Nathan Chiche, housed in a former school by Jean Prouvé. The account opens with a formative episode: at the age of thirteen, he bid 200 euros on a painting that turned out to be an authentic gouache by Sonia Delaunay. What he learnt from it, he explains, is that art rests on intuition, curiosity and the eye, and that collecting is first and foremost a way of learning.
The article mentions his studies in law and art history, which gave him a taste for combining rigour and intuition, then his discovery of the school, steeped in history and awaiting a second life, in which he saw a space for dialogue between architecture, memory and contemporary creation. To finance the opening of the gallery in 2024, he sold the Sonia Delaunay gouache.
The journalist recalls the early days of the programme: a solo exhibition of Jean-Pierre Raynaud, an installation with the architects Jean Nouvel and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, and L'École des mondes by Mircea Cantor. She mentions the collaborations with the Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Musée Guimet, as well as participation in the 1-54 London, Asia Now and Luxembourg Art Week fairs. Nathan Chicheportiche says he wishes to bring the work, the place and the viewer into dialogue, to strengthen the ties between Luxembourg and France and to open a second space, in order to support emerging and established artists and to help collectors build coherent collections.
« It taught me that art relies on intuition, curiosity and the eye. »