Dear friends,

Today is a special day for me.

May 27 two years ago is the date I acquired our beautiful home in Dallas.

In many ways, this day marks the moment I realized two goals: to put my boys on a solid path toward high school and to provide a good roof for my family. 

On Friday we celebrated our sons’ graduation from freshman year in high school!

I could not dream of a better quality of life. The pandemic jump-started the art world’s online business practice, and I am able to benefit from the robust virtual platforms I started building in 2011, coinciding with the opening of my Berlin gallery.

The home-pop up and online hybrid concept I developed in LA naturally carried-over to Dallas, and in the last two years I’ve literally been able to work from my pool!

I presented half a dozen exhibitions in my project room here. The works largely come from the collection Anne-Marie and I constituted from my activity in the last five years as a “private dealer.” Although I work very closely with several important estates (Rodin, Grosz, Kirchner), and acquired a significant number of Joseph Beuys works over the years, I do not represent any artists. By-and-large, my focus remains curatorial, and on what I call “transversal relationships.”

Of the exhibitions I presented here, the current show is the most delightful. I have been receiving exceptional feedback about the essay I wrote to accompany Kleos & Nostos, the most touching of which was from an esteemed friend, the “rédacteur en chef” of a first-rate international art publication. He wrote yesterday: “Your essay is a beautiful position paper, a mental mapping that is so much you. I could hear your voice talking to me. I love it.”

This year has brought me one of the highlights of my association with the Musée Rodin: to top off the more than two dozen bronze sculptures I sold on behalf of the museum over the years, I placed one of the great masterpieces of Auguste Rodin in a major American collection. L’homme qui marche sur colonne, which is currently being cast by Fonderie de Coubertin, is the most spectacular commission I’ve worked on to date. 

Finally, I’m off to Japan 🇯🇵 on Monday to see through the creation of another monumental commission for a Western collector: a 14-foot (4 m.) sculpture by an important contemporary art star in Asia, who largely remains to be discovered in the West. 

Kenji Yanobe’s Cats represent for me a contemporary book-end, one that symbolizes the jump from the industrial world into the immaterial, the flip-side of the Rodin walking man, which in 1900 propelled us into the age of modernity. 

I am blessed to be able to operate on both planes at the same time.

Thank you ever so much for your support over the years, and also for being there for us to share our success!

With kindest regards from Dallas, and hoping to see you real soon. 

Akim 

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