For its second edition from October 18 to 22, the new Parisian contemporary art fair, like the one it dethroned too, will be extending its reach beyond the Grand Palais Éphémère, where 154 galleries from 33 countries are expected.
In addition to the traditional Tuileries Gardens and Place Vendôme, the Palais d’Iéna (with a Buren / Pistolletto exhibition), the Petits-Augustins chapel at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (with a multimedia installation by British artist Jessica Warboys) and the forecourt of the Institut de France (where a monumental textile sculpture by Sheila Hicks will be erected) are also in demand. There will also be a Conversations program with nine lecture-debates at the Centre Pompidou.
While Urs Fischer takes centre stage at Place Vendôme with a monumental aluminium sculpture entitled Wave presented by Galerie Gagosian, the Grand Palais Éphémère is home to some of the biggest names in the art world. Max Hetzler will be presenting Katharina Grosse and her bursts of colour, Nathalie Obadia with Laure Prouvost and her new opus Octopus Body, Chantal Crousel with installations by Wolfgang Tillmans, Galleria Continua with Chen Zen, the leading exponent of the Chinese avant-garde, who passed away in 2000; Galerie Lelong, still loyal to the painter of floating worlds, Marc Desgrandchamps; and Loevenbruck, which presents the disturbing animal painter Gilles Aillaud at the Centre Pompidou (until February 26).
Emerging galleries include “Sans titre” (Paris), where Sequoia Scavullo, a young graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, presents disturbing half-realistic, half-realist paintings; Galeria Stereo (Warsaw), where the impressive Tomasz Kręcicki (Poland, 1990) manipulates everyday objects and scale with humour and virtuosity; and Jenna Bliss and her strange aerial photographs at Felix Gaudlitz (Vienna).
1. FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain), created in 1974.
From October 18 to 22
Grand Palais éphémère
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