A Family Affair

Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin and his son, Arthur, are opening a gallery in Hong Kong this month. Here is how they hope to shake up the city’s cultural scene

By Coco Marett.

There have been two constants in the life of Dominique de Villepin: travel and art. He was born in Morocco and spent years in Venezuela and the US even before he attended university in France, where he would go on to a distinguished career in the Foreign Ministry that, beginning in 1980, included posts in Washington DC and India, ultimately becoming the nation’s prime minister from 2005 to 2007 under president Jacques Chirac. Throughout all that time, he notes reflectively, “I was always fascinated with contemporary art, with searching for new ways of looking at life. “As a diplomat, I always thought artists had a very interesting view of the world. Wherever I went, I sought out artists to see how they felt and understood things, and I always found this to…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2020

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