ANDY REMENTER’s artistic journey began amidst the quaint charm of a Victorian beach town, laying the foundation for his fascination with nostalgia and vibrant colors. Graduating from The University of the Arts in 2004, he embarked on a creative odyssey that led him across continents. Immersed in the artistic milieu of northern Italy, Rementer honed his craft before ultimately settling on the East Coast.
Today, Rementer seamlessly juggles his time between drawing, painting, and exploring new destinations. His distinctive characters and illustrations have garnered widespread acclaim, gracing gallery exhibitions, global advertising campaigns, and coveted collector’s editions. With a client roster boasting titans like Apple, Nike, Samsung, and BMW, Rementer's work transcends boundaries, capturing the imagination of audiences worldwide.
Collaborating closely with art director Margherita Urbani, Rementer infuses his commercial, editorial, and animated projects with a unique blend of whimsy and sophistication. Through his art, Rementer invites viewers on a journey through time and space, where nostalgia meets modernity in a vibrant tapestry of color and creativity.
If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make.
Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.
Mentorship and curiosity, when balanced in equal measure, reveal the precious alchemy of a curator. And it is the duty of the mature curator to discern and detect, to cultivate change, and from there to pioneer, and to share. Innovation is never static, and the Present is already the Future. Fresh dialogs evolve, energies to be nurtured, opportunities to be guided. Renewed and re-orientated, Patrick’s decision to exchange his bricks-and-mortar Tribeca gallery for a new interactive Brooklyn space aligns him towards a new inquisitive future as supportive benefactor, interlocutor and mentor to a fresh yield of talented creators — those established and those rising — and the quest for discovery rejuvenates.
— Simon Andrews
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