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Eva Langret and Muriel Salem speak with François Chantala, partner at Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo by Naomi Rea. Vincent Honoré, Director of Exhibitions, Victor Secretan, Senior Curator, Anya Harrison, Curator et Rahmouna Boutayeb, Project Manager, assisted by Justine Vic

Over truffle and ricotta tortelloni, she confides, “It is often like this, but if it was really the case every single time, we would have nothing in our collection.” The exhibition 00s. Collection Cranford : les années 2000 focuses on this as yet unexplored decade, which has still to be fully defined. For this reason, the works in the exhibition will be presented chronologically. A timeline will chart the key events of this period and connect them to paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and videos from this prestigious collection. For Frieze Week, conceptual-art queen Laure Prouvost has transformed the space into an “institute of un-learning.” We pass through a bureaucratic queue into an installation in which a series of diptych paintings act like flash cards, teaching us to attach new meanings to certain pictograms. We have fun un-learning our own language and re-learning Prouvost’s lexicon, which tells us that a picture of a shoe means “car” and a roll of duct tape is “bicycle.” A picture of a face mask symbolizes “breathing.”

Valeria and Gregorio Napoleone Collection – London, UK

At the gallery, we bump into Maria Balshaw, the director of Tate galleries, who artfully dodges a question about the week’s hot topic—the cancellation of a highly anticipated Philip Guston exhibition—and listens intently to Salem’s thoughts on Tate Modern’s sprawling Bruce Nauman retrospective. Salem owns an edition of Wantee , the work that won Prouvost the Turner Prize in 2013. “I am happy that Laure hasn’t stopped surprising us with her creativity,” she says. Muriel Salem isn’t at home when I visit her Regent’s Park residence on a rain-soaked autumn day. In spite of Covid, she is in Montpellier, where an exhibition of artworks selected from her and husband Freddy’s collection is about to go on show at MO.CO – a public museum without a collection of its own. For the first time in France, MO.CO. presents a selection of important works from the Cranford Collection. Established by Muriel and Freddy Salem in 1999, it is now among the largest private art collections in Europe, comprising over seven hundred works from the 1960s to the present.

Here you’ll find the answers to any doubts you might have about details of the collection and subscription terms and conditions. For more information don’t hesitate to call our customer services centre on 0345 155 6396.Their acquisitions began seriously in 1999, when Muriel, with the help of Andrew Renton, started touring the East End galleries and absorbing the fervour of young artists who were then emerging in London. “I’d been closely involved with these people like Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas who were becoming superstars,” says Renton, an art advisor and curator who was also finding his own way as he established the first curating course at Goldsmiths’. “Those were exciting times.” Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Louisa May Alcott… Timeless Classics offers you a superb selection of novels that revolutionised the female universe. It’s testimony to the quality of the work they collect, as well as their generosity in lending it out. “It’s the responsibility of a collector,” says Muriel Salem, “to look after an artist’s work, to show it, and to share it. Nearly everything in this house has been in a fabulous museum at some point.”