Daniel Templon

Daniel Templon is a French contemporary art dealer born in 1945. He founded in 1972, the bilingual contemporary art magazine art press with art critic and erotic biographer Catherine Millet.

Biography

Templon played a key role to introduce in France international artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ellsworth Kelly, Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Jörg Immendorff, Roy Lichtenstein, Wolf Vostell, Helmut Newton, Richard Serra and Andy Warhol.

He started his first gallery very young and worked with French avant-garde artists like Christian Boltanski and neo-dadaist Ben. He also started working with a few foreigners. Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Clay Ketter and Sol LeWitt are among them, and so is fellow art dealer Leo Castelli.

Daniel Templon soon became a permanent fixture of the French art establishment adding Arman, Daniel Buren, and Jean-Marc Bustamante to the community of artists he represents- his gallery (see Art Museum, notable galleries list) moved close to the Pompidou Center, 30, rue Beaubourg. Today he represents around 40 artists among them alphabetically Valerio Adami, Larry Bell, Ben, Anthony Caro, Jim Dine, Jan Fabre, Gérard Garouste, Raymond Hains, David LaChapelle, Robert Longo, Jonathan Meese, Joel Shapiro, Chiharu Shiota, Frank Stella, and support-surface leader Claude Viallat.

The gallery has been participating in the most prestigious artfairs including FIAC since 1974 and ART BASEL since 1978.

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