The large contemporary art market, which is held until October 23 at the great ephemeral palace, brings together 156 galleries from around the world.
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Nine months, this was the gestation time necessary for the new Paris+ fair by Art Basel to replace the FIAC. The team led by Clément Delépine, former co-director of the turbulent and dynamic Paris international fair, and Virginie Aubert, ex-vice-president of Christie’s France, commissioned by the Basels to set up their Parisian event, was not idle. Admittedly, they experienced some disillusions, such as the ban signified at the end of July by the Paris police headquarters to install Place de la Concorde La Foire Design Miami Basel, which traditionally accompanies the Swiss demonstration and would have been renamed Design Miami Paris. The authorities feared that it would cause security problems, especially in the event of social movements.
Even if we note the presence of powerful partners, such as the Louis Vuitton house, the watchmaker Audemars Piguet – which organizes an exhibition by the Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis in the premises designed for the PCF by Oscar Niemeyer Place du Colonel- Fabien – or the Galeries Lafayette group (which supports, as it did at Fiac, the emerging galleries, sixteen, against ten previously, and honored at the center of the device), it is difficult to see The will formerly displayed by Marc Spiegler, the art Basel boss, to create new “bridges between contemporary art and French cultural industries such as fashion, music, design and cinema”.
Thus, LVMH, which could be the most concerned by the operation with its “special days”, which allow the general public to discover the diversity of the groups and know-how of the group by visiting its workshops, chose to Organize them from October 14 to 16 rather than align with the dates of the fair. However, there is, at the entrance to the Grand Palais Ephemeral which hosts the event, a Vuitton stand devoted to its collaboration with contemporary artists for its luggage with in particular Murakami objects … No doubt it will be necessary to leave time at the time. The young fair works in the long term, with a view to the reopening of the Grand Palais where Chris Dercon, the current one, but for a short time, boss of the national museum meeting (RMN), organizes this week of site visits For the VIPs of Paris+.
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For the rest, if the gallery owners appreciate the power and the efficiency of the new organization, the uninformed public will see little differences with the old fiac whose many elements are taken up in public space: a Exhibition of contemporary artists chosen by curator Annabelle Ténèze in the Tuileries garden and the Eugène-Delacroix museum, another Vendôme place by Polish artist Alicja Kwade, organized by the critic Jérôme without, another finally at the chapel of ‘Ecole des Beaux-Arts, that of the Berlin artist Omer Fast. And again, “conversations”, conferences held at the Marine ball, a barge moored near the Eiffel Tower. All these events are free, even if it is prudent to book for the last.
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