For a few years, between September 1971 and 1976, the Galerie Templon possessed a branch in Milan. The initiative resulted from two observations: on the one hand, there were only very few French collectors of contemporary art liable to acquire works from Daniel Templon; on the other hand, the old practice of foreign collectors coming to Paris to buy art was dying out. Templon’s conclusion was that he could make things easier for his clients by opening a sister gallery in Switzerland, Germany or Italy. At this time, the last-mentioned country offered several advantages, the most striking of which was its dynamism and openness with respect to contemporary art. In Milan, Templon occupied a first floor apartment of almost one hundred square meters on Via Monte di Pietà – a stone’s throw from La Scala- in which he staged à number of exhibitions with the assistance of Daniella Dangoor […].
Julie Verlaine, Daniel Templon. Une histoire d’art contemporain, 2016