In 1966, the young Daniel Templon is 21 years old when he creates his first gallery, rue Bonaparte in Paris. This anniversary book recounts the first 40 years of gallery Templon.

With over 400 exhibitions, gallery Daniel Templon has become internationally reknowned and counts today some of the major actors of the contemporary artistic scene.

Its history is mixed with the evolution of the art market and the successive apparition of new artistic trends in the second half of the XXth century:

Abstraction, New Realism, Pop art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Support-Surface, the Italian trans-avant-garde, Neo-expressionnism, New Americain Figuration…

A large number of artists who have now entered History, have exhibited rue Beaubourg. Among the most famous, are the French Arman, Ben, Daniel Buren, César, Gérard Garouste, Raymond Hains, Alain Jacquet, Paul Rebeyrolle, François Rouan ou Claude Viallat, and the american stars such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Willem De Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, or Andy Warhol.

Two texts open these 40 years of exhibitions on paper : a foreword by Ann Hindry, art critic, curator of Modern Art at the Fonds Doisneau of Renault and an interview of Daniel Templon by Bernard Blistène, General Inspector of artistic creation at the Délégation aux Arts plastiques of the Ministère de la culture et de la communication.

Through an exceptionnel ensemble of more than 1 000 reproductions, 500 documents and critical texts extracted
from the gallery’s archive, this book allows to discover the itinerary of a well-known art dealer who has made, very often, visionary choices.

It is the most authentic and complete book ever published to “learn” contemporary art.

This catalogue is distributed by our partner PARIS MUSÉES in 300 bookstores in France, including 50 specialized
bookstores with an Art section.

The catalogue will be listed in over forty (40) professional databases, including
FNAC, AMAZON and DILICOM as well as in online bookstores. The catalogue will also be distributed in Europe,
North America and Eastern Europe.