ApB: How was the first year of activity?

Martina Manco: Our courage to start a new business when many others, unfortunately closed, has been rewarded.
We were able to meet many art collectors and establish very gratifying relationships with them.
We like developing enduring relationships and of trust: we address the person, and not the client. Our greatest satisfaction lies in making the clients satisfied.

The management of an art gallery needs hard work: you need to keep relationships with artists, update the website every day, evaluate works, respond to the requests both via email and by phone, keep up to date on the novelties of the art market and then package with care every single work before sending it. We also got requests from Italy but not only: works of the gallery have been sent also to Australia, Austria, Cyprus, France, United Kingdom, and the USA.
This first year has gone beyond our predictions and this fill us with enthusiasm.
Of course, being online and reachable in every corner of the world has contributed to this result.

ApB: So, has the purchase of works of art moved online, as well?

Martina Manco: Yes, it has!
Many collectors, especially younger art collectors, have benefited from the possibility of choosing a work of art online and get directly at their home, with only a click.
The Internet allows us to keep on pursuing our passions!
We’d like to think that we can continue offering collectors and art lovers a pleasant time to dedicate to their passion.

Choosing a work of art from our art gallery becomes almost a rite of lightheartedness: anyone can admire our proposals on our website, call us for a customized consultation to talk about artists, works to purchase, but also about the world that revolves around art.

During the phone call we notice that clients get excited and want to prolong the talk. So the choice of the work becomes a way to focus on beauty, in a difficult  moment.
Once the work is chosen, clients are impatient for the work to arrive at home, and look forward to opening it to admire in person every small detail.
However, there have been occasions to deliver in person works of art to our clients.

ApB: Which are the next aims of The Strip Gallery online?

Martina Manco: We look forward travelling again to meet our artists and others who are in stand-by mode, go in person to visit their studios to breath the smell of just finished works and peek among their projects.
We have planned to arrange in a short time a very peculiar exhibition, extremely outside the box, that may involve young people, but not only!

And…we’re working to open physical offices in Monza which would become a meeting point to promote meetings among our clients and artists, but also a showcase for those who don’t know the art world.