Charles Asprey
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Charles Asprey
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25 March 1971 London, England |
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Charles Asprey is the publisher of the quarterly journal PICPUS and the founder of ArtSchool Palestine., as well as being one of the trustees of The Henry Moore Foundation and the Michael Clark Company. For many years he was the co-owner and co-director of aspreyjacques, a London art gallery, with Alison Jacques, which introduced British audiences to young, emerging German artists. These included Thilo Heinzmann, Manfred Pernice, Christian Flamm and the late Michel Majerus. Since 2005 he has concentrated on curating and collecting; in 2009, he was invited to show part of his own art collection at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. More recently, in collaboration with the directors of Cabinet gallery and Trevor Horne Architects, he has co-designed and financed a building for the gallery which opened in the Autumn of 2016.
ArtSchool Palestine (ASP), which Asprey co-founded with Sacha Craddock and Samar Martha, was set up in 2005 to promote and support Palestinian artists and aid their participation in international Contemporary Art exhibitions and biennales. ASP has held many events and exhibitions, including As If By Magic, to which the British artist Damien Hirst lent his support. In addition to this, Asprey personally put together a library of 1,500 art books with the help of the bookdealer and publisher Walther Koenig and his son Franz Koenig of Cologne, which he donated to Bir Zeit University near Ramallah in Palestine.
Asprey and his fellow editor Simon Grant founded PICPUS is a free, quarterly journal with a focus on the arts, story-telling and criticism, claiming that it is part of a long tradition of small, independent British arts journals and periodicals that attempt to fill a gap left by mainstream arts publications. The pair cite as examples Coterie (1919–1921); Ray Magazine (1926–1927); The Apple (1920's) and ZG magazine from the 1980s.
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