LONTI EBERS
Amant Founder
Rejecting the notion that a private foundation must be a monument to the collector’s taste, the Amant founder empowers curators and artists to realize their most ambitious visions at Brooklyn’s most intellectual nerve center.
WHAT IS YOUR TRADEMARK? My Ottica Urbani vintage plastic sunglasses.
NAME AN INFLUENCE OF YOURS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE. Italian Renaissance art.
DESCRIBE A RECENT CROSSROADS AT WHICH YOU FOUND YOURSELF. I may be at a crossing, but am happily installed at the intersection of supporting artists via Amant and collecting art personally.
“Big eyes, a deep voice, and disobedience (and not necessarily in that order).”
WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT WERE YOU KNOWN FOR? Big eyes, a deep voice, and disobedience (and not necessarily in that order).
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION TO CULTURE? Conceiving of and creating Amant, the nonprofit arts organization that I opened in 2020. The core of its mission is to advance the presentation of contemporary art, with an emphasis on innovative formats and ideas, so we tend to work with experimental artists of great ambition. Many of the artists we show have not had solo institutional shows in the United States, so we are certainly adding to the cultural landscape both in New York and internationally.
IF YOU COULD ATTRIBUTE YOUR SUCCESS TO A SINGLE QUALITY OF YOURS, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Fortitude.
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