GALLERIA CONTINUA
San Gimignano | Italy
Via del Castello 11
53037 San Gimignano
Italy
Directors | Mario Cristiani & Lorenzo Fischi & Maurizio Rigillo
Galleria Continua was founded in 1990 by Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Maurizio Rigillo, with the intention to give continuity to contemporary art in a landscape rich with the signs of ancient art. Occupying a former cinema, Galleria Continua established itself and thrived in an entirely unexpected location in a town -San Gimignano- steeped in history, timeless and magnificent. In 2004 Galleria Continua began a new adventure in Beijing, China, showing contemporary Western artists in an area where they are still little seen. In 2007, Galleria Continua inaugurated a new peculiar site for large-scale creations -Les Moulins- in the Parisian countryside. In 2015 Galleria Continua embarked on a new path, opening a space in La Habana, Cuba, devoted to cultural projects designed to overcome every frontier.
ESTE ARTE 2017
ESTE ARTE 2016
ESTE ARTE 2015
What is your ideal type of collector? We don’t have an ideal collector. Anyone can be a collector, passion for art is the thing that leads people to be interested in art so really anyone can be a collector for us.
What, on the contrary, is the sort of collector you try to avoid at all cost? We learn something new from everyone, also because we don not have limits on the ideal collectors. The important is to look at things from different points of view, and the interaction between people from all the world helps us to constantly learn something new. We think that is crux for us.
What, if any, is the best deal you have ever made? We don’t like the word deal. We like to show how our curiosity can bring us: only in the last year we made a lot of projects with different friends. Hiroshi Sugimoto with a permanent installation at Castello di Ama (Tuscany), and extraordinary exhibition of Michelangelo Pistoletto with Aveline Gallery in Paris, video group show exhibition at Bristol Hotel.
