At Andrée Putman’s Paris loft, locally based Italian art adviser Valerio Polimeno brings to life his dream project, an exhibition of work by Nigerian artist Jamiu Agboke in collaboration with the Viennese-Neapolitan gallery VIN VIN. Agboke’s work seduces with an interplay of light and nature, which is precisely the element Polimeno wanted to introduce to the Parisian art crowd. He envisaged the delicately captured scenes hung in the unique loft, previously lived in and designed by 'la grande dame of minimalism’.
Polimeno was single-minded. 'The show venue has to be this location. Otherwise it would not feel right.' He had his reasons for pursuing the loft: firstly, it linked to the sense of light shared by the product and interior designer with the artist; secondly, it was a fit with the show’s title, ‘Vertigo’ (shared by a recent work by Agboke, and Putman’s silverware collection for Christofle, one of the house’s best-selling lines).
