ROULETTE
Curated by SARAHCROWN
Inspired by the private, rotating nature of the casino game, Roulette is an art project that introduces artistic talent each month in the Global Jet Capital headquarters in Zurich, starting May 6, 2021.
Roulette showcases one artist every month in the exclusive, invitation-only office spaces of Global Jet Capital, located in Zurich. The project is a collaboration between Sarah Corona, the founder of the New York based art advisory firm SARAHCROWN, and Alexandra Asche, the Sales Director Europe for Global Jet Capital.
The first artist to exhibit is Italian artist Elisa Bertaglia. The rotating exhibition will change every first Thursday of each month. Bertaglia will be followed by artists Rachel Gregor, Xavier Petromelis, David Syre, and Dov Talpaz.
The partnership of Corona and Asche creates a dialogue between the Swiss network of Global Jet Capital and the artistic talent represented by SARAHCROWN, offering a unique occasion to broaden both sides’ horizons and understanding of culture by introducing otherwise inaccessible opportunities to discover new and exciting art.
The project is based on presenting international artists to the Swiss community on a rolling basis. The artworks are affordable and on paper by both emerging and established international artists, carefully selected by the curator, Corona. Roulette creates an intimate experience with art for its viewers by exhibiting the artworks in a private, official setting.
The project, furthermore, ultimately utilizes the benefits of art in office spaces: Art in the workplace is known to encourage and promote social interactions, stimulate emotional responses, and foster personal relationships. Scholars show that the design of an office space, including artworks, influences job productivity, job performance, and job satisfaction.
All artworks are for sale.
For more information, please contact SARAHCROWN at info@sarahcrown.com or Alexandra Asche at aasche@globaljetcapital.com.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Elisa Bertaglia is an Italian painter and visual artist currently living and working in Rovigo, Milan, and New York. She received her MFA in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. The same year, Bertaglia was selected for the Bevilacqua La Masa Prize in Venice. In 2011, she was selected to take part in the 54th Venice Biennale with an installation that embodied the key themes of her own poetics, such as nature, symbolism, memory, and duplicity. These concepts were developed through a dreamlike and evocative language. Bertaglia’s work has been selected for many awards and has been exhibited in important galleries, museums and institutions both in Italy and abroad. https://elisabertaglia.com/
Dov Talpaz is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Bryan, Texas, and grew up in Israel. He studied at the New York Studio School from 1999 to 2002 with Mercedes Matter and Rosemary Beck, and has exhibited extensively. Talpaz's paintings and drawings reveal his deep fascination with stories and the lives reflected in them. His works are included in public and private collections across the globe. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues including Slag Gallery and Spring/Break Art Fair, New York; and EGMS Studio, Austria. Talpaz’s work has been featured in publications including Artcritical.com, Erev Rav Art Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Whitehot Magazine. http://www.dovtalpaz.com/
Rachel Gregor is a fine artist living and working in Kansas City, Minnesota. She graduated from Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 and has studied abroad at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. Images of garden cultivars and native wildflowers are common themes throughout Gregor’s work. Her landscape scenes and still life compositions cross the boundaries between the extravagant, overly composed, and the mundane. Rachel Gregor’s landscape scenes and still life compositions are feminine and dreamlike in their simplicity. https://www.rachelgregor.com/
Xavier Petromelis is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Petromelis was born in the Bronx, NY, and received his BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2016. He opened his first solo show Factory Standard the same year. Xavier Petromelis’s works utilize gestures of traditional painting techniques and merge them with an exceptional knowledge of graphic arts in abstraction. His work has been exhibited in venues including La Bodega Gallery and The Nars Foundation in Brooklyn. Petromelis teaches at The Cooper Union as a guest lecturer since 2017. http://www.xavierpetromelis.com/
David Syre is an American artist based in Bellingham, WA, whose large-scale acrylic paintings, drawings, sculptures, and art installations are inspired by travel, his subconscious mind, and nature. Syre is a self-taught artist and he creates art at an accelerated pace, embracing bold lines and brave colors. Archetypal symbols and numbers often appear as images alongside words referencing the moment of creation. A prolific artist, Syre is currently working on several interdisciplinary projects including several large-scale sculptures and installations. Syre has exhibited internationally, including Nice, France; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York, NY; Hamburg, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Miami, FL. https://www.davidsyreart.com/
Location: Global Jet Capital HQ, Zurich
On view: May 6 – December 2021
