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韓國收藏家沈俊燮（Jun-sub Shim）是OPNNG的創辦人。OPNNG既是葡萄酒餐吧，也是私人藝廊，展示沈俊燮收藏的韓國現當代藝術大家之作，包括雕塑家兼畫家李禹煥（Lee Ufan）、畫家鄭相和（Chung Sang-Hwa）與朴栖甫（Park Seo-Bo），以及前衛先鋒李健鏞（Lee Kun-Yong）與金丘林（Kim Ku-lim）。

為尋求新鮮視角，沈俊燮亦收藏新晉藝術家的作品，如OK Seungcheol（又名Aokizy）和以繪畫、公共藝術及雕塑聞名的Grafflex。除韓國藝術家外，沈俊燮還擁有國際知名藝術家的作品，包括草間彌生、赫爾南．巴斯（Hernan Bas）、Andy Denzler和喬爾．夏皮羅（Joel Shapiro）。

「我的收藏家之路始於2018年第一件收藏OK ［Seung-cheol］的畫作。他涉及後數碼藝術的作品引起我的深深共鳴。不過，那時我還沒有真正覺得自己是一個藏家，我只是單純想支持我欣賞的藝術家。我的母親是一位畫家，因此我瞭解藝術家常常面臨各種挑戰。購買這件藝術品讓我感到［為OK的藝術之路］貢獻的力量。」

「直到後來，我購入了韓國其中一位最重要的現代藝術家──朴栖甫的一幅小畫幅紅色作品，才慢慢意識到自己似乎正踏上一條更深入的收藏之路。同年，我去參觀韓國國際藝術博覽會（KIAF），在那裡遇到了韓國當代抽象藝術家李英培（Lee Bae）的一件黑白作品。這幅黑白相間、線條旋轉的畫讓我深深著迷，久久無法忘懷。那種被作品直擊內心的感覺，讓我意識到藝術的迷人之處不在於你知道多少，而在於它能喚起怎樣的共鳴。」

「2020年，我開始採取更有系統的方式收藏。為了迎接人生的新階段。我參加了韓國拍賣行K-Auction的拍賣會。原本我的目標是拍下一幅李禹煥的作品，但意外地被朴栖甫一件創作於21世紀初的作品所吸引，這件作品散發出強大的能量。作品是他在八十歲的時候創作，但卻非常新穎而充滿活力，這種反差讓我感到既驚喜又欽佩。拍下這件作品這讓我更明確了自己的收藏方向和理念──不再是單純地購買藝術品，而是與藝術家、創作和自己情感之間的一種連結。」

「在投入藝術之前，我有超過十年時間參與韓國最大的電商時尚平台Musinsa從初創到迅猛發展。我相信時尚和藝術有著深厚聯繫。兩者都涉及美學、敘事，以及看待世界的方式。」

「離開Musinsa後，我希望創造一個以私人、個人化的方式體驗藝術的地方。OPNNG就是這樣誕生的，這裡不只是餐廳，還是一間藝廊。空間內的藝術品每隔數月輪換，保持活力和新鮮感。但有一件作品通常不會被更換，它是藝術家李禹煥在韓國現代陶藝家朴英淑（Park Young Sook）的陶瓷盤上畫下的一個紅點，在我看來，這一筆紅色代表著葡萄酒的顏色，完美地詮釋了OPNNG的身份。」

「我喜歡參加早餐香檳活動。巴塞爾藝術展香港展會期間，我參加了kurimanzutto藝廊舉辦的活動，讓我有機會與全球的朋友重逢。這些享受藝術、對話和美酒的時刻，是我最美好的回憶。」

「我的生活方式的確因為收藏藝術而發生了改變，它讓我有機會接觸到許多優秀的藝術家，塑造了我對美的感知，也重新定義了我對生活方式的看法。但更重要的是它讓我的收藏之路變得更加豐富和有意義，而不僅僅是獲得作品。我希望透過OPNNG繼續分享藝術，並非透過淡化它的意義，而是將其融入生活。」

「無論是透過支持新晉藝術家、策劃展覽，還是簡單地與其他人分享我的熱情，我的目標都是建立一個有價值且有意義的收藏。畢竟，收藏的真正樂趣不在於擁有，而是當中的體驗。」

The collector’s other great passion is female Surrealist painters. As well as work by Tanning, he owns pieces by Leonora Carrington, Jane Graverol, and Ithell Colquhoun, and has one of the largest collections of paintings by Fini, many of which will be exhibited in the artist’s forthcoming retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt later this year. Levett considers her one of the great painters of the 20th century: ‘The quality of the painting, the imagination, the composition – it’s masterful.’

Having missed out on buying a Remedios Varo – ‘She’s been popular for a few years, it’s hard to buy her work’ – he recently discovered the Mexican painter Bassi. ‘Her story is extraordinary,’ he enthuses. ‘She actually spent five years in prison for shooting someone – her daughter’s abusive husband. The general belief is that she was protecting her daughter, who [was the one said to have] actually shot him.’ Bassi’s luminous paintings, where gravity is suspended and the scale monstrous, often feature a lone figure in a sea-green miasma drifting toward fairy-tale castles. Levett has bought three for the collection.

By his own admission, the collector is a relentless multitasker. He has published several books – most notably on his collection of female Abstract Expressionist artists – sponsors artist residencies, including Dragon Hill at the stunning Jacques Couëlle house in Mougins, and is committed to lending works to museums. That way, he says, ‘you start building the provenance and history that should have been there for decades. When I bought many of these paintings they had barely been exhibited.’ Currently he has 25 works out on loan, alongside 50 Abstract Expressionist paintings touring the United States. ‘Selfishly, it’s fun to stand in a museum and watch people respond to a painting you own,’ he says.

He relies on an army of assistants. One of his researchers is a lecturer in Renaissance history at Stanford University. ‘I bought an early sketchbook by Cecily Brown for £30,000 at auction – but its real significance came when we discovered that several of the drawings were studies of Renaissance figures from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and frescoes by Raphael. No one had bothered to look at the book closely enough.’

It is fair to say he enjoys the detective work as much as the acquisitions. ‘The deeper you go into the history of art by women,’ he says, ‘the more you realize how much of it still needs to be told. The real reward is helping to rebuild the stories and histories around them.’