La GALLERIACONTINUA was created in San Gimignano (Tuscany) in 1990 by three friends : Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Maurizio Rigillo in an old movie theatre.
A branch of this art gallery has been inaugurated in October 2007 in Boissy-Le-Chatel in France, far away from Parisian mundanities.
Les Moulins ( “The mills”) exhibits on the seasonal rhythm major artists from over the world. The very peculiar location is an old factory of 10 000 m2 and has already welcome more than 30 000 visitors from the five continents.
In 2010, GALLERIACONTINUA has acquired at less than one mile from Les Moulins, at Saint-Marie an eighteen century mill which expands over 15 hectares and 30 000 m2 of very distinctive construction.
This unique specificity allowed numerous artists to express themselves simultaneously as Kader Attia, Daniel Buren, Mona Hatoum, Anish Kapoor, Pascale Marthine, Tayou and Sislej Xhafa, Shilpa Gupta and others.
Special recognition to the compaction of the Italian artist Arcangelo Sassolino.