After many years in the art business in Europe, Stephane Ambrogi and Fabien Castanier teamed up in Los Angeles to open AMBROGI | CASTANIER GALLERY (formerly Gallery St. Germain) in 2004. Situated on Robertson Boulevard by the corner of Beverly Boulevard – at the gateway to the West Hollywood gallery district – the AMBROGI | CASTANIER GALLERY brings the work of dynamic contemporary artists from Europe and the United States to the dynamic art audience of southern California. The gallery favors a painterly sensibility with a certain abstract flair. But landscape subjects and the human figure are favored by most of the artists, and sculpture is always on view as well.

   Among the artists to be seen at the AMBROGI | CASTANIER are the Paris-based sensations Tony Soulié, Guy Ferrer, and Jean-Pierre Chardat, with their raw touch, sense of presence, and powerful, almost existential metaphors. Soulié is noted especially for his blazing color and his transgressive way with photographic imagery, while Ferrer manifests his intensely textured figural ciphers in two and three dimensions and in between, and Chardat brings forth the sensuality of his figures with fields of words, letters and phrases. The gallery also exhibits the endless landscapes of Cherel and the mysterious vibrating animal images of Korean-born Paris painter Son Seock. Also on display is local artist Vahé Berberian, known for his quasi-calligraphic painting style. Finally, Eric Bottero's unique cibachrome prints can also be seen on display.  

   The AMBROGI | CASTANIER GALLERY has embarked on an ambitious program that will present these and other established and emerging artists in solo and group exhibitions. In its restraint and simplicity, the gallery’s space serves to set off the expansive intensity and elegance of the art to be seen here. The gallery staff, equally fluent in English and French, provide its public with objects of unique interest but to provide information about the makers of these objects and the contexts in which they work. Thus, AMBROGI | CASTANIER GALLERY welcomes discerning collectors and casual viewers alike.

   In 2006, the gallery attended Art Miami and the Shanghai Art Fair. In the upcoming year, AMBROGI | CASTANIER will continue to make a name for themselves in the international art fair circuit. In 2007, they will once again attend Art Miami, as well as artDC, and the art fairs in New York and London.