Matthew Slotover (Live at Maison Estelle)
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Matthew Slotover (Live at Maison Estelle)

B1IntermediateJune 4, 202656 min
  • Interview
  • Arts & culture

Robert meets Matthew Slotover OBE, publisher and entrepreneur. This episode was recorded live from Maison Estelle in London. Matthew Slotover co-founded the art magazine Frieze in 1991 and grew into a major media and events company that has a focus on the art scene and since 2003 produces the annual Frieze Art Fair in London, later joined by fairs in New York, Los Angeles and Seoul. In 2021 he opened Toklas, a Mediterranean restaurant in London, and in 2022, he launched Fort Road Hotel in Margate. Matthew is currently chair of Turner Contemporary, Margate, and a...

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Good morning everyone. My name is Robert Diamant. I am a gallerist based in Margate. I am partner at Carl Friedman Gallery and I've been there for about 16 years. And it's actually how I met today's guest, Matthew Slottover, the incredible founder of Friese Art Fair, Friese Magazine, Toklas, the beautiful restaurant, which actually last time

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I was here I had to leave an event to rush to Toklas to host another event yeah and also the Fort Road Hotel in Margate and Matthew's recently also become a trustee on the board of Turner Contemporary in Margate the museum and over the last kind of 11-12 years there's been a huge regeneration of the town which has been a real privilege to be part of and I also host a podcast

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called Talk Art so thank you for being here. So Matthew can we talk a bit about you growing up because I was really fascinated about how you got to the place of actually founding Freeze magazine way before the art fair and way before all your other kind of entrepreneurial activities. What was it that first caught your imagination about the art world or artists?

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