Se in autunno il Grand Palais di Parigi ospita FIAC, in primavera quest’anno fa da cornice ad ARTPARISJustArt!. Una fiera dedicata all’arte moderna, contemporanea e al design più focalizzata sul mercato parigino e la scena artistica francese.
L’inaugurazione della XIII edizione della fiera si preannuncia trionfale. Prevede infatti una sfilata di camion da 13 metri ricoperti con opere d’arte lungo gli Champs-elysées. Otto TIR che arrivano a Parigi dopo aver viaggiato per l’Europa. L’intervento di arte pubblica Move For Life è curato da Littmann Kulturprojekte di Basilea. Qualche globetrotter delle fiere ricorderà il camion parcheggiato davanti al Historische Museum durante l’edizione 2006 di ArtBasel su cui campeggiava una inquietante scritta “FOR EVER” tatuata su pelle. Move For Life è un progetto di arte itinerante con l’obiettivo di sensibilizzare il pubblico verso temi di scottante attualità come: lotta alla povertà, violenza, razzismo, AIDS, distruzione dell’ambiente naturale.
Quest’anno da segnalare, tra le 120 gallerie partecipanti, una piccola rappresentanza italiana: Galleria Repetto, Acqui Terme; Galleria Russo, Roma-Milano; Galleria Marino, Roma e Venice Projects, Venezia.
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Art gallery guests, the driving force behind projects, each more inventive than the other, may be of two types: a physical person or an entity, an agency, another gallery… their participation, be it subtle or radical, provides a fresh look at works of art and cultivates fruitful dialogues to
be discovered at the various stands where the event is brought to life.
ARTISTS
the Lahumière gallery asked one of its artists, sculptor Jean-Gabriel Coignet, to set up the exhibition «Face to face, relief sculptures» with the use of his own resources: there, Jean Arp rubs shoulders with Jean Gorin, etienne Béothy, Denis pondruel, and Antoine perrot, blurring the lines between generations. the Lelia Mordoch gallery requested that François Morellet share the exhibit walls with an artist he knows very well: emmanuel Fillot. Although very different at first glance, the work of these two artists is linked in the way space is treated in their works: geometric spatialization for Morellet, geopoetic spatialization for Fillot. While IFA Gallery has invited the artist Zane Mellupe to participate as director at its stand, gallery owner Albert Baumgarten welcomes the installation «salon Fuck-Design» by French artist Rajdar Coll-Part at his stand. Let us also mention performances by Lydia Kavina at Barbarians Art Gallery, and lastly American performer nathalie White at Acte2galerie, who will perform a choreography in a transparent box filled with water.
ART CRITICS/DIRECTORS
For its first participation in Artparis, the Analix Forever gallery has called upon critic Paul Ardenne to design a stand around the theme of «Reality Revisited», seen as «a frame propitious for all possible poetic renditions» by this art historian, who gained renown as director during Force de l’Art 1 in 2006. the Belgian gallery J. Bastien, another new arrival at Artparis, gave carte blanche to critic and curator Daniel Abadie, former Director of Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume. He wanted to compare and contrast two French painters: Gaston Chaissac and Michel Haas. Also, art historian Jean-Luc Chalumeau, the author of some thirty books translated into eight languages, will participate at the stand of the Luxembourg-based Lucien Schweitzer gallery, along with Anna Loporcaro, exhibition director at the MUDAM, the Luxembourg Museum of Modern Art.
ARCHITECTS
As a «Golden Lion» winner at the 1996 Venice Biennial, the agency codirected by architect odile Decq was chosen to renovate the MACrO, the rome Museum of Contemporary Art. she designed the stand of the oniris gallery, which focuses on abstraction. interior architect and set designer Philippe Kaufmann, creator of the new Chanel space at the printemps department store, will participate at the Vieille du Temple gallery stand. through a clever use of walls, he proposes a multiplication of diagonal lines and, in so doing, perspectives, and transforms the space to offer a pluralistic reading of the works it contains. Cofounder of the first internet-based interior architecture agency, architurn, nelson Wilmotte took on the task of organizing the Polka gallery stand at Artparis by arranging photographs by YvesMarchand & Romain Meffre dealing specifically with urban architecture.
«To that end, I imagined the Polka stand as a collector’s interior world. We are going to play with the accumulation of photos, but also the works’ mobility, like that of their creators», explains Nelson Wilmotte, who will also be presenting some architectural and opera staging models amidst the photographs.
DESIGNERS
When an ordinary photo machine is reimagined by the illustrious Philippe Starck, anything can happen! installed at the Kahn gallery, his takes 3D images focused after body detection… the three artists represented at the stand—Ben, Jacques Bosser, and Joël Ducorroy—will create works with visitors in the photo machine in real time. As decorator, designer, artist, and creator of film posters such as the one for Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave, noart has made a stand completely out of metal for the olivier Waltman gallery, a homage to the architectural structure of the Grand palais, baptized The Faraday Cage».
COLLECTOR
Collector and film producer Charles Gassot is the guest of 5ème Galerie. He produced etienne Chatiliez comedies such as Happiness is In the Field in 1995 and Tanguy in 2001. For Artparis, he is coproducing a solo show that 5ème Galerie is devoting to Frank Jons, whose works he collects.
GALLERIES
the Meyer Zafra Space is inviting the polish gallery Atlas Sztuki, founded in 2003 in Lodz, which is presenting artist Roman Lipski, never previously shown in France. Galleria nove is partnering with Werkstatt Galerie to show the drawings of Francis Bacon. Other fruitful partnerships are participating in the renewal of Artparis galleries. For instance, Brugier-Rigail, based in paris and Brussels, is coming to Artparis by invitation from Riff Art Projects, the Linz gallery will be the guest of Rémy Bucciali, the Priska Pasquer gallery is being brought in by Ilan engel Gallery, while Hypertopie will accompany the Véronique Smagghe gallery.
Munich-based °Clair Galerie, together with its parisian associate Heart Gallery, is offering a common curated project called «Clair de coeur» focusing on emotion and desire. Their presentation changes every day: Berliners Daniel Mohr and Gundula Friese on Wednesday, painter Jérôme Borel on thursday, Buenos Aires photographer Adriana Lestido together with the russian photographer Boris Savelev on Friday, photographer Reiner Riedler on saturday, culminating on sunday with a group exhibition centered on visual artist Petr Lovigin.
ART CENTRE
Long-time collectors Amaury and Myriam de solages just founded in 2011 Maison Particulière in Brussels, intended to promote art in all its forms. they are presenting a single monumental piece measuring 4 meters long and 3 meters high on the theme of birth at the Acte2galerie stand. entitled «Tehom», the work is by Angelo Musco.
FASHION AND LUXURY
At 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, the legendary luxury trademark Swarovski, specializing in glass crystal, is participating in the creation of an installation by Australian artist Hannah Bertram, an ephemeral carpet that she will compose during a performance at Artparis. Also, the Bernard Ceysson gallery asked artist Claude Viallat to silkscreen a collection of boots from the famous italian company Sergio Rossi.
UNICEF
to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Arnoux gallery is partnering with Unicef to combat the transmittal of AiDs from mothers to infants. the principle: works by abstract artists from the 1950s will be at the stand at their usual price, but 25% of the proceeds will be paid to Unicef by the purchaser by means of a separate check. the purchaser will also get the benefit of a tax deduction of 66% to 75% of the amount paid to Unicef (60% for businesses).
