Gallery Gaïa & Romeo was born from Frédéric Cassin’s desire to share his passion as a collector, shaped over more than twenty years. His discerning eye is particularly drawn to the great names of Italian ceramics, including Marcello Fantoni, Guido Gambone, Salvatore Meli, Carlo Zauli, and Lino Bersani.
Having reached a turning point in his career, Frédéric Cassin has chosen to share his vision by founding the Gaïa & Romeo gallery alongside his goddaughter, Antoinette Monnier. Coming from the digital media sphere, she helps shape a resolutely contemporary approach to the gallery. Together, they pursue the ambition of a gallery fully rooted in the contemporary world, harnessing today’s tools to reinvigorate the presence of artworks. Gaïa & Romeo thus advocates an artistic heritage conceived not as a vestige of the past, but as a living and enduring reality.
Gallery Gaïa & Romeo embodies a sensitive dialogue between personal memory and universal symbolism. Its name, inspired by the founder’s grandchildren, reflects both intimacy and artistic vision. Gaïa, the primordial goddess, evokes the nourishing earth, the source of clay and all creation. Romeo, in contrast, carries a romantic and radiant spirit, suggesting passion and the sunlit colors of the Mediterranean.
Young yet guided by a strong curatorial vision, the gallery draws inspiration from the ceramics of the 1950s, an era when the medium reinvented itself as a language of pure artistic expression. Every piece exhibited resonates with this living material, seeking to create a dialogue between heritage and modernity. Gaïa & Romeo is committed to reframing ceramics, not as mere decorative craft, but as a vibrant art form, infused with gesture, matter, and color. Following in the footsteps of artists like Picasso, who revealed its expressive power, as a central force in modern and contemporary art.
