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Galleries Rise to a New Reality
Financial Times on 12 December 2020
Art and high-end luxury seem particularly aligned in London at the moment. The gallerist Omer Tiroche — whose Conduit Street neighbours include Vivienne Westwood and Berluti — has reopened a show that pairs Hermès bags with paintings by artists including Andy Warhol, Piero Manzoni and Zao Wou-Ki. Read More -
Out BG: The Art of Hermès presents luxury bags with stunning paintings
Out BG on 4 November 2020
The stylish concept combines 10 luxury handbags from the Hermès archive, including the famous models Birkin and Kelly Hermès, with 10 paintings by world-famous artists such as Andy Warhol, Christo, Pierre Soulages, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Yayoi Kusama and others. Read More -
NBGA Magazine: A closer look at The Art of Hermès at Omer Tiroche
NBGA Magazine on 22nd October 2020
Step into the beautifully bespoke world of Hermès at the Omer Tiroche Gallery. If you’re anything like our fav Icy Girl Saweetie, creating IG accounts for your Birkins (or at least we can dream) then this is the exhibit for you. Read More -
W Magazine: The Art of Hermès Exhibition in London Puts Birkin Bags Next to Warhol Paintings
W Magazine on 14 October 2020
We’ve seen our fair share of Hermès bags as high art—whether it was George Condo’s painting on a Birkin bag that Kanye West gave Kim Kardashian for Christmas in 2013, Birkin stone replica by Barbara Ségal owned by Rihanna, or even Paris Hilton’s pink Birkin bag, covered in Swarovski crystals. Now, an exhibition opening this week in London pairs up Hermès bags with artworks to draw a parallel between art and luxury handicraft. Read More -
GQ: Ten coolest things to do in London this week
GQ on 12th October 2020
15 October - 18 December: Art of Hermès
Hermès has a legendary status that very few reach in the realm of fashion. Its bags are considered by many to be works of art in themselves, and of course there are those who appropriate them as canvases for their own art (remember the Kanye West bag?) Omer Tiroche Gallery in Mayfair is presenting Hermès bags alongside artworks by some of the most influential post-war artists including Warhol, Fontana, Christo and more. The exhibition highlights the similarities between the bags and artworks, emphasising the parallels between a unique work of art and the exclusivity of a hand-crafted Hermès bag. -
Antiques and Trade Gazette: New way to display? Fine art and high fashion come together at Mayfair gallery
Antiques and Trade Gazette on 12 October 2020
The rise of fashion brand shops around Mayfair is often decried by the trade, but this month a local gallery is leaning into the similarities between fine art and high-end fashion. Omer Tiroche Gallery’s exhibition The Art of Hermès suggests that the French company’s handbags may be considered sculptural items to enhance and complement art of the 1950s-80s. Read More -
Vanity Fair Art: Omer Tiroche Gallery
Vanity Fair 15th June 2020
Omer Tiroche Gallery focuses on Modern, Post-War and Contemporary art and commenced operation in 2014, opening its permanent space in Mayfair in 2015. Since then, the gallery has held regular solo exhibitions that have included, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pablo Picasso, Franz West and Yayoi Kusama, as well as historically-themed group exhibition; in 'Prière de Toucher – Homage to Maeght' the gallery remounted the Surrealist movement's third official exhibition, curated by Duchamp and Breton and hosted by Galerie Maeght in 1947; 'Un Art Autre' brought together a selection of artworks by artists from the second School of Paris of Post-War abstract male and female painters. Read More -
Artsy: 5 Ways Galleries Are Finding Success during COVID-19
Artsy on 30th April 2020
Galleries are turning to new strategies and tactics to sustain their businesses during widespread shelter-in-place orders. Learn what Artsy gallery partners around the world are doing to keep collectors connected to their artists and programming. Read More -
Widewalls: Why Dalí’s Sketchbooks From the 1930 Were Pivotal For His Surrealism
Widewalls on 4th February 2020
The most prolific figure whose entire oeuvre developed upon the Surrealist influences was Salvador Dalí. Known for his impressive paintings, sculptures, furniture design, and, of course, his eccentric persona, the artist always searched for new challenges to express himself regardless of conventions, genres or any other restrictions. Read More
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gallery girl: Id, Ego Superego at Omer Tiroche
gallery girl 4th Decemeber
It’s no secret that the art world is full of big egos. In order to get ahead in life, a little bit of confidence and self-belief are vital to make sure you survive. But, what does having an “ego” really mean? We all have one, and actually, according to Sigmund Freud, this “ego” is not a sole element, but one that tries to balance itself with two other components: the “id” and the “superego.” In a new investigation of self-portraiture at Omer Tiroche in London, a mix of paintings and photographs explore a psycho-analytical theory of personality. Read More -
The Hippocratic Post: Exhibitions Exploring the Taboos and Misconceptions Surrounding Pregnancy & Birth
The Hippocratic Post 13th October 2019
Until 20th December, The Omer Tiroche Gallery, in London, are displaying ‘The Luxury of Tenderness,’ a striking painting by Marlene Dumas, who studied psychology, documenting the personal journal of her pregnancy. Read More -
The World of Interiors: Exhibition Diary
The World of Interiors September 2019 issue
OMER TIROCHE GALLERY CONDUIT ST, Animalia: Freud’s Dürer-influenced Dead Bird on a Bamboo Table (1944) figures in this menagerie of animals depicted by 20th- and 21st-century artists. Read More -
Gazette – Where to see and buy art in London this summer
Gazette 26th July 2019
Where to see and buy art in London this summer weekend including animal paintings at Omer Tiroche.
Chagall, Picasso, Calder and Warhol are among the 15 modern and contemporary artists in the high-end yet playful exhibition at Omer Tiroche, ANIMALIA. This colourful summer show showcases depictions of various animals from oxen, dogs, cats, mythical beasts. It includes both the symbolic to the literal with reference to traditional and even prehistoric ideas behind rendering beasts and runs at the Mayfair gallery until September 20. Read More -
GoWithYamo – Animalia
GoWithYamo on 28th June 2019
On the 21st of June 2019, Omer Tiroche Gallery opened their fun filled exhibition ANIMALIA, featuring works by 15 great artists. The exhibition explores the importance of animals to artists throughout the history of art, with some works on display depicting them for their symbolic qualities, whilst others take a more personal and playful approach. Read More -
Gentleman’s Journal: Tastemakers
Gentleman's Journal June 2019
Introducing the 50 most influential people in London's art and design scene. Read More -
FAD: The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see right now
FAD on 27th May 2019
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you ‘The Top Art Exhibitions to see in London’, plus one addition from outside the M25. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you. All end soon, so hurry if you want to catch them: Read More -
Yorkshire Post: Painting a picture of riches in the world of art and antiques
Yorkshire Post: Money on 27th January 2019
The world’s first major art and antiques fair of the year opens today. BRAFA (Brussels Art Fair) was first held in 1956 and opened to non-Belgian dealers in 1995. Last year 64,000 visitors a ended, many of whom were new and younger than before.
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GowithYamo: Mao and His Portrayal in Chinese Contemporary Art
GowithYamo on 14th November 2018
Mao Zedong's face is one that most people can instantly recognise; over the years, his image has become more than a mere portrait and has acquired the status of an icon, a symbol for revolution. The current exhibition at Omer Tiroche Gallery explores the impact the Communist leader had on artists who grew up during the Cultural Revolution and how his image still impacts Chinese contemporary art. Read More -
artdaily.org: Omer Tiroche Gallery opens exhibition of seminal works from the Art Informel movement
artdaily.org on 9th July 2018
Un Art Autre, featuring seminal works by artists who were instrumental in forming the radical avant-garde movement that sprung out of Paris in the late 1940s. Un Art Autre (Art of Another Kind) is also known as Art Informel which is often used as an umbrella term that encompasses the development of various European Post-War movements, such as Lyrical Abstraction, Nouvelle École de Paris, Tachisme and the CoBrA Movement. Read More -
D-journal: Must See | Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings
D-journal on 9th April 2018
Yayoi Kusama’s name is synonymous with two things: polka dots and pumpkins. An exhibition dedicated to the artist’s small-scale paintings of pumpkins will take place at London’s Omer Tiroche Gallery from 1 March to 1 June. Consisting of eight works, Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings is the first gallery to publicly display this body of work in the UK. Read More -
Londres Magazine: Les citrouilles de Yayoi Kusama reviennent à Londres
Londres Magazine on 9th April 2018
Chaque exposition de Yayoi Kusama attire les foules. C’est pour ses citrouilles à pois qu’elle est surtout connue. En noir et blanc ou en couleur, ces citrouilles s’exposent en format miniature dans une exposition inédite à la Omer Tiroche Gallery, la première exposition qui rassemble l’ensemble de cette collection de petits dessins au Royaume-Uni. Des pumpkins très graphiques et pop. Read More -
Luxury London: Unmissable Art Exhibitions In London This April
Luxury London on 6th April 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkins, Omer Tiroche Gallery "I was enchanted by their charming and winsome form. What appealed to me most was the pumpkin’s generous unpretentiousness,” said Yayoi Kusama of the humble gourd. Her small-scale pumpkin paintings have now taken over Omer Tiroche Gallery in bright yellow force. Read More -
Diplomat Magazine: Yayoi Kusama Small Pumpkin Paintings
Diplomat Magazine on 1st April 2018
Small-scale pumpkin paintings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama are now on view and for sale at the Omer Tiroche Gallery. One of Kusama’s best loved and most iconic motifs, the pumpkins are a visual embodiment of her childhood as well as her present psychological state.The artist’s obsessive use of this motif is interpreted as an attempt to control her fears. For information visit www.omertiroche.com Read More -
studio international: The Armory Show 2018
Studio International on 25th March 2018
This year's Armory Show offered viewers an impressive selection of works by a wide range of artists from around the world. Curated sections emphasised performance and installation, as well as interactions between art and technology. The enduring influence of postwar art and the historic avant grade was abundantly clear in the works from the end of the last century, as well as in more recent creations. Read More -
Time Out: Become an active element of Omer Tiroche Gallery’s living art exhibition, Atelie
Time Out on 21st March 2018
Three incredible artists are giving audiences an exclusive look into their integral artistic experiences by opening up their studios. At this unconventional art exhibition, visitors are not simply invited to be outside observers of the artwork, but rather they’re welcomed into the artists’ creative processes. Read More -
Love Japan Magazine: 5 London Galleries With Japanese Exhibitions You’ll Want to Visit this Spring
Love Japan Magazine on 22nd March 2018
Omer Tiroche Gallery showcases the colourful work of Yayoi Kusama this spring, with an exhibition featuring her most iconic of motifs - the pumpkin. Get up close and personal with a colourful array of her small-scale pumpkin paintings, a collection which has been brought together in one gallery space for the first time in the UK. Read More -
Les Echos: CHAUMET AU SALON DU DESSIN
Les Echos on 20th March 2018
Attendu par tous les amoureux des arts graphiques, la 27e édition du Salon du dessin s'annonce cette année encore riche en découvertes. Read More -
Apollo: The best of the Salon du Dessin 2018
Apollo on 21st March 2018
Three are specialists in modern and contemporary art, including Omer Tiroche Gallery, from London, which brings pieces by artists including Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder (booth range €25,000 to €1m). Read More -
Widewalls: Dwarfish or Gargantuan, We Love the Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Paintings!
Widewalls on 19th March 2018
Whatever their size, the Yayoi Kusama pumpkin works are instantly recognizable. Aside from her equally recognizable polka dots, pumpkins have been a passion of the artist for more than six decades. Read More -
Robb Report: Behind the Scenes at the Salon du Dessin
Robb Report on 16th March 2018
On March 21, the 27th edition of the Salon du Dessin kicks off in Paris with a roster of 39 international dealers who specialize in important works on paper. First-time exhibitors include Onno Van Seggelen of Rotterdam, who is offering a rare drawing by the 18th-century Dutch artist Reinier Vinkeles, and Omer Tiroche of London, who will be presenting a selection of 20th-century drawings, including Pablo Picasso’s double-sided Fishermen (1957), executed in black and brown pencil. In addition to the fair, a host of collateral events and exhibitions will be held in the City of Light. The fair runs through March 26 at the Palais Brongniart. Read More -
Time Out: Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings
Time Out on 13th March 2018
Remember that exhibition of massive, spotted pumpkins that Londoners queued around the block for a few year ago? It's back in town. Sort of. Yayoi Kusama's artwork will be on show in a smaller-scale offshoot of that exhibition, 'Small Pumpkin Paintings', which is exactly what it sounds like. Expect to see psychedelic pumpkins all over your Instagram feed again. Read More -
Artsy: What Sold at The Armory Show
Artsy on 11th March 2018
Omer Tiroche, a London-based dealer, opened a space on Conduit Street three years ago in order to be able to participate in fairs like The Armory Show, which still require galleries to have a permanent, brick-and-mortar location in order to exhibit. He brought a series of collages from 1980 and 1981 by Yayoi Kusama, which feature magazine clippings, many of birds, given to her by her former lover Joseph Cornell. Priced at $300,000, they were grabbing a lot of media attention and a lot of interest from collectors from Asia, South America, and New York, said Tiroche. Read More -
Artnet Art Guides: Art Guides Armory Week 2018: Your Go-To Guide for All the Art Fairs
Artnet Art Guides on 6th March 2018
Keep an eye out for collages by Yayoi Kusama from London’s Omer Tiroche Gallery. Read More -
Artlyst: Armory Show Highlights and Lowlights 2018 Round-Up
Artlyst 11th March 2018
Highlights include a collection of rare collages by Yayoi Kusama at Omer Tiroche Gallery. Read More -
VernissageTV: The Armory Show 2018
VernissageTV on 9th March 2018
Omer Tiroche Gallery featured in VernissageTV's tour of The Armory Show 2018 Read More -
Artnet News: 10 of the Most Remarkable Artworks at the 2018 Armory Show
Artnet News on 9th March 2018
When she was living in New York during the 1960s, Yayoi Kusama entered into an intense though platonic romance with the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell, and when he died in 1972 he left her a shoebox filled with his precious clippings from nature magazines—the birds, insects, and other animals that he famously used in his surrealistic so-called Cornell boxes. Devastated, Kusama moved back to her native Japan in 1973 and, in 1977, checked herself into the hospital where she lives and works to this day.
A few years later, however, Kusama took out Cornell’s shoebox and, in homage to her late lover, began turning the clippings into collages, centering them on monochrome paper and ringing them with her own signature “infinity” nets and dots. In total, she made about 150 of them, selling many of them to Japanese collectors, and for the past five years the enterprising London dealer Omer Tiroche has been painstakingly buying them back. Displayed as a partial set for the first time at the Armory Show, the diminutive collages line the wall of his booth, drawing in a steady stream of intrigued collectors.
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Quiet Lunch: Armory Show for Eva
Quiet Lunch on 8th March 2018
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (for contemporary and modern art junkies)! As winter storm Quinn hammers the Northeast with heavy snow, Manhattan looks like a Victorian snow globe version of a miniature Gotham City. It almost feels like Christmas, but we are in early March and it’s the VIP preview Day for the Armory Show, New York’s premier international art fair, which will be showcasing outstanding 20th and 21st century artworks by both established and emerging artists. Although tackling the prima donna of U.S. art fairs might seem like a Sisyphean task, I am personally very excited (giddy, complete with the silly smile planted on my face) to attend this binge worthy selection of “the very best” that international Contemporary and Modern art galleries have to offer. Read More -
a-n Magazine: Now Showing #236: The week’s top exhibitions
a-n Magazine on 9th March 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Painting, Omer Tiroche Gallery, London Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is renowned for her use of dots in a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, film and performance. This show at Omer Tiroche Gallery features a series of small-scale ‘pumpkin paintings’ that are being shown for the first time in the UK. Kusama describes them as a form of self-portraiture, with the images relating to her childhood when her family would survive primarily off pumpkin-based dishes. Read More -
ART NEWS: 9 Charming, Moving, or Otherwise Captivating Booths at the Armory Show, in No Real Order
ARTNEWS On 7th March 2018
Yayoi Kusama collages at Omer Tiroche Gallery Perhaps you have savored Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Rooms,” waiting hours in line for the pleasure of posing within their mirrors. Perhaps you have enjoyed her “Infinity Net” paintings and their bewitching organic repetition. Well, then it is time to head over to the booth of this London gallery, which has a row of six collages that the Japanese phenom made in 1980 and 1981. They’re small but strong: a central image—an eagle, say—sits at the center of each, ornamented with meticulous lines and a glowing border. They look like cells under a microscope, or celestial bodies. They are superb. Read More -
Financial Times: Live and Let Buy
Financial Times on 5th March 2018
Omer Tiroche has filled his space with Yayoi Kusama's pumpkin painting made between 1991 and 2003. Read More -
Time Out: There’s a new show of Yayoi Kusama pumpkin paintings
Time Out on 7th March 2018
When Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama brought her exhibition of massive, spotted pumpkins to London back in 2016, they became an Instagram heavy-hitter. With infinity mirrors providing a never-ending stretch of trippy gourds to pose among, the hallucinogenic rooms turned a whole new generation onto the nearly-90-year-old visual pioneer. Read More -
Unbiased Writer: YAYOI KUSAMA OPENS NEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON
Unbiased Writer on 5th March 2018
A new exhibition in London features a series of small pumpkin paintings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Known for her signature use of pumpkins in artworks ranging from large-scale sculptures to paintings, her latest series is comprised of 3D-effect pumpkins that are contrasted against a flat infinity net background. Named Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings, the exhibition at Omer Tiroche Gallery is open now through June 1st. Read More -
Hunger: LISTEN UP LONDON: GO AND SEE YAYOI KUSAMA’S ICONIC PUMPKINS NOW
Hunger on 5th March 2018
Known to art lovers everywhere as the Queen of Polka Dots, Yayoi Kusama is also renowned for another spotty masterpiece: pumpkins. Perhaps the most Instagrammed artist ever, her installations brought thousand people queues to London’s Victoria Miro Gallery last year, and since Blighty’s capital has been craving her creations. Finally, she’ll be back, and the exhibition will consist of Kusama’s small-scale pumpkin paintings that have never been on public display in the UK before. Read More -
AnOther: Yayoi Kusama’s 1980s Nature Collages
AnOther on 26th February 2018
Mention Yayoi Kusama and among the first things to spring to mind are pumpkins, spots, the colour orange and infinity mirror installations. Collage forms a lesser-known niche of the Japanese artist’s oeuvre, but she produced many over the course of the 1980s and 90s, and thanks to Omer Tiroche Gallery, a selection of pieces from 1980 and 81 will be shown as part of New York’s upcoming Armory Show (and in conjunction with a London exhibition of the same gallery, focusing on Kusama’s small-scale pumpkin paintings). Read More -
Time Out: There’s a new show of Yayoi Kusama pumpkin paintings
Time Out on 7th March 2018
When Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama brought her exhibition of massive, spotted pumpkins to London back in 2016, they became an Instagram heavy-hitter. With infinity mirrors providing a never-ending stretch of trippy gourds to pose among, the hallucinogenic rooms turned a whole new generation onto the nearly-90-year-old visual pioneer.
Now, there's a smaller-scale offshoot of that exhibition to London: taking over the Omer Tiroche Gallery near Bond Street with ‘Small Pumpkin Paintings’. A feature in her work since the 1940s, they may not be as grand as their 3D cousins, but these pumpkin pics represent an essential part of Yayoi’s oeuvre. And the spotted gallery wall won’t look too bad in a selfie, if that’s what you’re really after.
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Londonist: The Best Exhibitions To See To Mark International Women’s Day
Londonist on 5th March 2018
Yayoi Kusama has gained fame for her infinity rooms that use mirrors so they look like they go on forever (though the queues to see one is similarly eternal). The other thing she's known for are her polka dot pumpkin sculptures. This Mayfair gallery brings together her smaller pumpkin paintings, works that have never been displayed together in the UK before. Read More -
London Calling: This Week: 5 – 11 March
London Calling on 5th March 2018
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most important Japanese contemporary artists and her polka dot patterned pumpkins are an instantly recognizable motif of pop art. The troubled artist, a member of the 1960s New York art scene, suffers from hallucinations and OCD and the 3D dots and infinity nets are actually how she experiences the world around her. The repetitive use of the pumpkin motif is usually interpreted as an attempt to control her fears, however Kusama has also accused her former friend Andy Warhol of stealing her idea for his Marilyns! The Omer Tiroche Gallery has created a friendly and playful space to showcase a small but important collection, which is displayed together for the first time in the UK. Read More -
Dazed: Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkins are on show for free in London
Dazed on 5th March 2018
Yayoi Kusama’s name is synonymous with two things: polka dots and pumpkins. Since first exhibiting Mirror Room (Pumpkin) at Venice Biennale in 1993, pumpkins of all sizes covered in dots have proliferated in her work. Now an exhibition dedicated to the artist’s small-scale paintings of pumpkins will take place at London’s Omer Tiroche Gallery from 1 March to 1 June. Read More -
Hypebeast: A Look Inside Yayoi Kusama’s New Exhibition in London
Hypebeast 5th march 2018
As well as her signature infinity mirrors, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is known for her use of pumpkins in mediums ranging from paintings to large-scale sculptures. Kusama has worked with pumpkins since the 1940s, when she was studying at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts. A new exhibition in London features a series of small pumpkin paintings by Kusama, the first time that these works have been displayed together in the UK. Read More -
Monocle Minute: It’s a big month for Yayoi Kusama. The Japanese contemporary
Monocle Minute on 3rd March 2018
It’s a big month for Yayoi Kusama. The Japanese contemporary artist will be turning 89 in a few weeks and three shows devoted to her work are opening this weekend alone. It has been more than half a century since Kusama left her hometown of Matsumoto, so it’s only fitting that the city’s museum of art has opened a major retrospective called “Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love” to celebrate the institute’s 15th anniversary. Simultaneously “Infinity Mirrors” has opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto after a successful run in the US and “Small Pumpkin Paintings” launched at London’s Omer Tiroche Gallery. Kusama’s creations help her to confront the hallucinations she has battled since her early childhood (pumpkins features prominently). Her art is made to efface the self and it will let you escape the here and now too. Read More -
The Luxury Columnist: On the Hotlist
The Luxury Columnist on 1st March 2018
Yayoi Kusama is one of our favourite living artists and we were lucky to see some of her work in Ginza, Tokyo. This month there’s a new exhibition featuring her iconic pumpkin paintings at Omer Tiroche Gallery in Mayfair. Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings displays a range of works together for the first time in the UK. They represent her childhood and the conflict between escapism and reality. Read More -
Fabric Magazine: Yayoi Kusama’s New Exhibition
Fabric Magazine on 1st March 2018
Avant-garde artist Kusama is best known for her provocative ‘happenings’ and hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots. So this intimate exhibition of small-scale paintings is an unexpected delight. Kusama’s family survived primarily off pumpkin dishes when she was a child – as the visual embodiment of her childhood and present psychological state, they are a form of self-portraiture. Viewed up close, you can see that these paintings are an amalgamation of two motifs she has revisited throughout her career: polka dots and infinity nets. Mesmerising. Read More -
artdaily.org: Omer Tiroche Gallery exhibits small-scale pumpkin paintings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama
artdaily.org on 1st March 2018
LONDON.- Omer Tiroche Gallery kicked off their 2018 programme with an exhibition dedicated to small- scale pumpkin paintings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. This is the first time that this small body of work is being displayed together in the UK. Read More -
Town & Country: Ten Exhibitions To See This Spring
Town & Country on 22nd February 2018
"I was enchanted by their charming and winsome for." The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said of pumpkins, which she began painting back in the 1940s. This exhibition of small-scale paintings allows for a closer study of a motif that has profound personal significance to the artist, brought to life using her signature polka-dot patterns. Read More -
Aesthetica – Yayoi Kusama: Rapturous Installations
Aesthetica on 22nd February 2018
In 2014, at the age of 85, Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) was named the world’s most popular artist. According to museum attendance data, her striking work attracted over 2 million visitors in 12 months. It is unsurprising, then, that most of her exhibitions in recent years have been large-scale and globally resonant affairs. From March, however, a more intimate retrospective is on show at Omer Tiroche Gallery, London. Read More -
Flash Art: Art Stage Singapore 2018
Flash Art on 17 February 2018
Similarly, the notion of the collector as a key figure and benefactor of the art fair was on display in “Calder on Paper,” which presented a number of mobiles and works on paper from the private collection of Micky Tiroche. Another highlight of the fair was organized by the Southeast Asia Art Forum, who exhibited a design collection by The Artling, an art advisory and online gallery run by a prominent collector in Singapore, whose collection was featured at the fair in previous editions. Read More -
Fabric Magazine: Hot List
Fabric Magazine on 19th February 2018
Avant-garde artist Kusama is best known for her provocative ‘happenings’ and hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots. So this intimate exhibition of smallscale paintings is an unexpected delight. Kusama’s family survived primarily o pumpkin dishes when she was a child – as the visual embodiment of her childhood and present psychological state, they are a form of self-portraiture. Viewed up close, you can see that these paintings are an amalgamation of two motifs she has revisited throughout her career: polka dots and infinity nets. Mesmerising. Read More -
Artlyst: Singapore Art Week: The Last Word – Paul Carter Robinson
on 31st January 2018 Artlyst
Singapore is a vibrant hub at the best of times, but it doubles up as a key global centre for contemporary art, as the world focuses on Singapore Art Week. Over the period of seven days the city hosts a major international art fair, Art Stage Singapore as well the many public and commercial art displays. The city welcomes both fine and Urban art, showcasing some of the best art in the region. Read More -
Love London Love Culture: PREVIEW: Yayoi Kusama: Small Pumpkin Paintings, Omer Tiroche Gallery
on 23 January Love London Love Culture
On display from the 1st March, this new exhibition of the artist’s work will concentrate on her smallscale pumpkin paintings and is the first time that this small body of work will be displayed together in the UK. The Japanese artist first experimented with her pumpkin works in the 1940s while studying Nihonga – a traditional form of Japanese painting – at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts. As one of her most loved and iconic motifs, the pumpkins are the visual embodiment of her childhood as well as her present psychological state. Read More -
Art Radar: Preview: art fair as collaboration – ART STAGE Singapore 2018
Art Radar on 23rd January 2018
In collaboration with the Tiroche DeLeon private collection, ART STAGE will present both established and emerging contemporary artists from Southeast Asia and beyond. This highlights the co-operative efforts of the fair and its participating galleries and collectors. Working alongside the internationally-renowned collection, Rudolf and collector Serge Tiroche have conceptualised a programme that will exhibit works acquired between 2011-2016 at earlier renditions of ART STAGE Singapore. The selected works will not only be re-exhibitied, but will be given new life, re-invigorated as part of a cohesive exhibitionary collection. Read More -
Boudin Art Info: ART STAGE Singapore 2018 Innovates Art Fair Concept
Boudin Art Info on 24th January 2018
“Calder on Paper” is presented by the Omer Tiroche Gallery of London and it brings to the table of ART STAGE Singapore 2018 a unique collection of gouaches on paper by the late American artist Alexander Calder. Read More -
Artdaily: The Tiroche DeLeon Collection
Artdaily.org 12 January 2018
In the first ever unique collaboration between ART STAGE Singapore and an internationally recognised private collection and art fund, ART STAGE Singapore 2018 presents a grand selling exhibition of Asian contemporary works from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection. Read More
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The National: Calder on Paper: London show reveals the versatility of American sculptor’s Alexander Calder talent
The National on 27 November 2017
The American artist Alexander Calder was best known as a sculptor, creating large-scale monumental sculptures that adorned such places as New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport, the Unesco building in Paris as well as outside the Aztec stadium used for the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. Read More -
Ennigaldi: Salon 003: Calder on Paper: 1960-1976 at The Saatchi Gallery
Ennigaldi on 8 November 2017
The Saatchi gallery is currently hosting ‘Salon 003: Calder on Paper: 1960-1976’, which is one half of a spectacular display of Alexander Calder’s work; the other half of the show, ‘Calder on Paper: 1939-1959’ is on display at the Omer Tiroche Gallery, London. Read More -
Spear’s: Review Alexander Calder at the Saatchi
Spear's on 24 October 2017
Two major London shows reveal the extraordinary talent of American artist Alexander Calder. The man behind both, with a little help from Saatchi Gallery, is the Mayfair art dealer Omer Tiroche. Read More -
The London Magazine: Review | Calder on Paper: 1960-1976
The London Magazine on 17 October 2017
SALON, Saatchi Gallery’s commercial exhibition space, launched earlier this year aiming to present the work of leading international artists who have had limited exposure in the UK. Its latest exhibition Calder on Paper: 1960 – 1976 is staged in collaboration with Mayfair’s Omer Tiroche Gallery and presents a large variety of Alexander Calder’s vibrant gouaches on paper. Read More -
Art Market Guru: Interview with Omer Tiroche
Art Market Guru on 28 September 2017
Can you tell us more about your background? How did you get to where you are? I’ve been surrounded by art my entire life; my grandfather had galleries in Paris, Israel and the US, and my father had a gallery in Israel before moving to London and becoming a private dealer. Read More -
Art is Alive: Calder on Paper
Art is Alive on 27 September 2017
American artist Alexander Calder is one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of the twentieth century. Read More -
London Live: Alexander Calder at the Saatchi
London Live on 27 September 2017
One of the largest collections of work by the American artist Alexander Calder has gone on show in the capital - celebrating a technique he explored, alongside his much loved mobile pieces. Read More -
The Telegraph: Luxury | Art
The Telegraph on 12 September 2017
Next up is an exhibition of gouaches by Alexander Calder held in collaboration with the Omer Tiroche Gallery. Read More -
China Xinhua News Network Corporation (CNC): East Meets West in Chinese Abstract Painting
CNC on 8 March 2017
Omer Tiroche Gallery London, opens a new exhibition of works by three modern Chinese masters. Read More -
The Mayfair Magazine: Bright Young Art Gallerists & Dealers
The Mayfair Magazine on 6 February 2017
Tiroche comes from “a bloodline of art dealers”. His father Micky has been a private dealer for more than 20 years – and after spending a summer at Sotheby’s Contemporary department, Omer opened his own gallery on Conduit Street in 2015. His French bulldog, Bamba, can be found roaming the premises, which is devoted to historically significant secondary-market exhibitions. Read More -
The Art Newspaper: Brussels Art Fair Embraces the Contemporary
The Art Newspaper on 20 Janurary 2017
The four newcomers are the London- and Old Jaffa-based gallery Omer Tiroche Gallery; Bernier/Eliades, which has galleries in Athens and Brussels. Read More
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Artnet: Gallery Hopping ‘Whimsical Picasso Drawings at Omer Tiroche Gallery’
Artnet on 21 October 2016
Mayfair wunderkind Omer Tiroche is marking the expansion of his eponymous gallery’s scope, to include Modern art as well as contemporary, in a most appropriate way: with a show of works by Pablo Picasso, the king of Modernism himself. Read More -
The Londonist: Take Our Tour Of Some Of London’s Best Art Exhibitions
The Londonist on 13 October 2016
So Frieze Art Fair has left town and that marks the end of Frieze week, but there's still plenty of great art to see around London. Read More -
Culture Whisper: Picasso on Paper, Omer Tiroche Gallery
Culture Whisper on 4 October 2016
Picasso is the world's favourite artist. One of the most influential figures of the 20th century, he casts a hugely long shadow over the art-world - and will do for centuries. This autumn, the National Portrait Gallery mount their major exhibition Picasso Portraits. At the same time, just down the road, a smaller, quieter exhibition is taking place. Mayfair Gallery Omer Tiroche have announced Picasso on Paper. Read More -
Evening Standard: From Frieze London to Picasso’s Portraits: unmissable events and top picks for contemporary art lovers
Evening Standard on 28 September 2016
If the National Portrait Gallery's fabulous show tempts you to buy, head straight to Mayfair gallery Omer Tiroche Gallery for the Picasso on Paper show, where prices start at £15,000. Read More -
Huffington Post: Picasso on Paper
Huffington Post on 28 September 2016
Throughout his prolific career, Pablo Picasso made literally thousands of drawings. Some were sketches of ideas that would later evolve into paintings, others were complete in themselves and then there were those dedications - scribbles really - that were handed out to lucky recipients. Read More -
The Guardian: British Museum prints deal completes Picasso mission
The Guardian on 25 September 2016
Where can you see the most persuasive proof that Pablo Picasso was the finest graphic artist of the 20th century? A great French or Spanish art gallery? The unlikely answer is closer to home. Read More -
Observer: Picasso’s lover at heart of historic UK collection of his finest prints
Observer on 25 September 2016
Where can you see the most persuasive proof that Pablo Picasso was the finest graphic artist of the 20th century? A great French or Spanish art gallery? The unlikely answer is closer to home. Read More -
Love London Love Culture: Preview Picasso on Paper, Omer Tiroche Gallery
Love London Love Culture on 23 September 2016
Picasso on Paper will provide an intimate insight into the artist’s work from the early 1900’s all the way through to his final years. The display reveals how the use of paper was an important part of the way in which he worked and reshaped his ideas Read More -
Omer Tiroche discusses Picasso on Paper
London Live on 23 September 2016
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Creative Mapping: Picasso on Paper
Creative Mapping on 21 September 2016
London's Omer Tiroche gallery is offering us an intimate look into the world of Pablo Picasso with their 30+ piece retrospective of the 20th century artist's illustrations from the early 1900's through his last years. Read More -
Arton: Omer Tiroche Marks Gallery Rebrand with Rarely Seen Picassos
Arton on 29 August 2016
London gallerist Omer Tiroche is celebrating his recent expansion into Modern art and the rebranding of his gallery with an exhibition of more than 30 important and rarely seen works on paper by Pablo Picasso. Timed to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery's 'Picasso Portraits' exhibition. Read More -
Solomon Mine: Interview: Third Generation Art Dealer, Omer Tiroche
Solomon Mines: Arts & Culture on 1 August 2016
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Creative Mapping: Interview with Gallerist Omer Tiroche
Creative Mapping on 29 July 2016
Gallerist wunderkind Omer Tiroche is sending waves across the London art scene with his recently opened gallery in Mayfair. Born into the art world, Omer's father has worked as a private dealer in London for the past two decades and had previously founded the Tircohe Auction House in Israel, and his uncle is co-founder of the Tiroche DeLeon collection. Read More -
The Guardian: Snakes and Nanas, the voluptuous art of Niki de Saint Phalle
The Guardian on 21 July 2016
A ravishing new show brings together unseen works by Niki de Saint Phalle, the French sculptor who turned childhood trauma into explosions of shape and colour. Read More -
AnOther: The Rainbow-Coloured Revelry of Niki de Saint Phalle
AnOther on 19 July 2016
Who? As a young girl in the 1930s who had recently moved with her family from France to the US, Niki de Saint Phalle was expelled from a prestigious boarding school in New York City for meticulously painting fig leaves red on the school’s statuary – a cardinal sin, as far as the governing body was concerned. Little did they know, the sense of rebellion which drove the creative act, fuelled by a desire to beautify and add joyful colour to the world around her – was to become a recurring theme threading through Saint Phalle's personal life and artistic career. Read More -
Huffington Post: The Art of Niki de Saint Phalle – A Rebel Through and Through
Huffington Post on 12 July 2016
Lively, chromatic, female: Niki de Saint Phalle’s works are instantly recognizable. The French-born, American-raised artist is one of the most significant female and feminist artists of the 20th century, and one of the few to receive recognition in the male-dominated art world during her lifetime. Read More -
Studio International: Niki de Saint Phalle
Studio International on 9 July 2016
At first sight, Omer Tiroche Gallery is filled with a menagerie of joyful, celebratory and colourful works: gouache paintings and crayon drawings; sculptures and reliefs studded with coloured glass mosaic; ornate mirrors and intricate yet simple jewellery – all infused with a sense of playfulness and naivety, like that of a child. But look more closely and there is more to the works on display than meets the eye. Read More -
Candid Magazine: Omer Tiroche Gallery – Niki De Saint Phalle
Candid Magazine on 24 June 2016
At a time when many central London galleries – particularly in Cork Street – are closing it is exciting to find a new venture in the heart of traditional Mayfair. Omer Tiroche Contemporary Art opened just over a year ago in February 2015, but already seems a well-established presence on Conduit Street. Read More -
Harper’s Bazaar: What to Book Niki de Saint Phalle at Omer Tiroche Gallery
Harper's Bazaar on 9 June 2016
Curated by Helen Pheby of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 'Je Suis Une Vache Suisse' collates a broad range of pieces by the French artist, who rose to fame in the early 1960s following the success of her Shooting Paintings series, created by firing at a combination of canvases and paint containers. Read More -
Town & Country: What to Book, Niki de Saint Phalle at Omer Tiroche Gallery
Town & Country on 9 June 2016
Whether imbued with passionate rage, playful eccentricity or pure exuberance, Niki de Saint Phalle’s works share a wonderful vibrancy that comes across strongly in Omer Tiroche Gallery's latest exhibition, which charts the development of her œuvre from the 1950s to her death in 2002. Read More -
Blouin Art Info: Victor Vasarely’s Mind-Bending Op Art at Omer Tiroche Gallery
Blouin Art Info on 3 March 2016
London’s Omer Tiroche Contemporary Art is showing a survey of works by Victor Vasarely, who is regarded as the father of Op-art. Developed in collaboration with the Fondation Vasarely, “Pour un Manifeste” coincides with the 110 anniversary of the artist’s birth and marks 40 years since the inauguration of his foundation. Read More -
Exclusively British – Top 10 Fashion & Arts News Stories
Exclusively British January/February Issue 2016
Discover exciting new modern British and contemporary art gallerists at London Art Fair. Omer Tiroche is the bright, new comer, having opened his Mayfair gallery in February. Tiroche has surprising gems including a Damien Hirst spot painting, Anthony Caro desert bronze and a charming Graham Sutherland surrealist landscape. Exclusively British Read More Read More
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Mayfair Times: Calder Tapestries on Conduit Street
Mayfair Times on 15 November 2015
Pennsylvanian-born sculptor Alexander 'Sandy' Calder is most known for his kinetic sculptures, or tapis. However, the late artist also experimented with elements of soft sculpture and tapestry. Opened last month, Alexander Calder: Tapestries And Their Gouaches, explores the story behind one of the Calder's last projects. Read More -
Art Roundup: Calder Tapestries on Conduit Street
Mayfair Times 5th November 2015
Pennsylvanian-born sculptor Alexander 'Sandy' Calder is most known for his kinetic sculptures, or tapis. However, the late artist also experimented with elements of soft sculpture and tapestry. Opened last month, Alexander Calder: Tapestries And Their Gouaches, explores the story behind one of Calder's last projects. Read More -
Carpets & Textiles for Modern Interiors: Calder: Tapestries and their Gouaches
Carpets & Textiles for Modern Interiors on 25 October 2015
Four tapis and a hammock designed by Alexander Calder were shown alongside related gouache works at Omer Tiroche Gallery in London this autumn. The Mayfair show coincided with the opening of 'Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture' - a Major retrospective at Tate Modern. Read More -
Artnet: Must See Exhibition
Artnet, Art Fairs on 15 October 2015
It's one of the biggest events on the art work calendar: Frieze London is in full swing, featuring work from over 1,000 contemporary artists presented by 160 of the top galleries in the world. Read More -
Financial Times: The Art Market The Imitation Game
Financial Times, Art Market on 20 February 2015
Hardly a month goes by without news of dealers setting up in London, and the latest to be charmed by British skies is the Italian Nicolò Cardi of Milan, creator of Cardi Black Box, the contemporary arm of the renowned family firm of postwar and modern art dealers. And Cardi isn’t doing small: he is taking on a townhouse just two doors away from Zwirner at 22 Grafton Street. Nearby in Conduit Street, another young’un is opening a gallery: Omer Tiroche, 23. Read More -
artnet Asks: London Gallerist Omer Tiroche
artnet News on 10 February 2015
Omer Tiroche has just opened his first space in the heart of London’s Galleryland: Mayfair. And he did in style. The inaugural exhibition, “Redefining Paint: Germany and Austria since 1970s” gathers a slew of heavy-hitters that would make many far more senior dealers envious: Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer, and Franz West, among others. Read More -
The Art Newspaper – In the Trade
The Art Newspaper 9th February 2015
Second generations bring Korean art to London. Two new galleries are bringing Korean art to Mayfair. Omer Tiroche, the son of the Israeli collector-dealer Micky Tiroche, has opened OTCA (Omer Tiroche Contemporary Art) on Conduit Street. His first exhibition, "Redefining Paint: Germany and Austria since 1970" closes on 1st May, with the next show dedicated to Korean Works from his collection. Read More