At the end of February in London to open a new art gallery called Raven Row. Its owner - Alex Seynsberi (Alex Sainsbury), the descendant of the founder of a network of food stores Sainsbury's. Gallery located in two buildings, located near railway stations Liverpool Street. The buildings constructed in the 1750-ies, previously owned by the silk traders. Reconstruction had a talented architects of the company «6a».

Family Seynsberi known for its support of cultural institutions. In 1991, Alex's father and uncle donated 50 million pounds to create the National Gallery wing of Sainsbury. An uncle, Simon Seynsberi (Simon Sainsbury), bequeathed the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery and eighteen of superb paintings from his collection of . And once removed of Alex's grandfather founded the center Seynsberi at the University of East Anglia. Family members Seynsberi do not like to talk about the amounts they spend on charity. Therefore, Alex refused to say how much he spent on a new gallery.

February 28, Raven Row opened in the first exhibition, which will see works by Ray Johnson (Ray Johnson) - a contemporary of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) and Saya Tuombli (Cy Twombly). In the 1960's, the New York Times gave this author the nickname «The most famous unknown artist». Johnson was one of the first who started to use in their works photos «stars» of music and cinema. His creativity is influenced by the ideas of famous artists, which he studied at the College of Black Mountain - Josef Albers (Josef Albers) and John Cage (John Cage). Johnson is not fond of the commercial galleries, and preferred not to have affairs with them. He was one of the pioneers of the so-called mail art - «Art e-mail». Often, Johnson sent his collages of other artists, that they «enriched» them - so people know about his work. Exposure Gallery Raven Row will be the first major exhibition of the artist in Europe.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Source: guardian.co . uk , artinvestment.ru