MIRAGES LVII

This month we will make long walks from Art Fairs to the major exhibitions and from the Traces to Architecture!!!

Paris Photo (7-11/11)  is the largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November at the historic Grand Palais in Paris. Since 1997, the Fair’s mission is to promote and nurture photographic creation and the galleries, publishers and artists at its source. This year Paris Photo brings together up to 200 exhibitors from across the world, offering collectors and enthusiasts the most diverse and qualitative presentation of photography-driven projects today. For its 17th edition, LOOP Fair  (19-21/11) in Barcelona brings together more than 40 galleries and artists proceeding from 20 different countries that will offer an overview of the current moving image panorama, while touching upon cogent issues that are at once social, conceptual and formal. Abu Dhabi Art (21-23/11) expands beyond the notion of a traditional art fair, in placing strong emphasis on a diverse public engagement programme, including art installations and exhibitions, talks and events that take place in different locations throughout the year. The second edition of Printing Plant Art Book Fair (22-24/11) takes place during the Amsterdam Art Weekend. Printing Plant is an intimate three-day art book fair for like-minded, independent publishers and a broadly interested audience. With more than 80 national and international publishers, Printing Plant presents a versatile selection of artist editions, catalogs, books, monographs, magazines and zines that are generally not available in regular bookshops. Independent artistic print culture has a rich tradition in Amsterdam, but there are few places for artists and publishers to also present the progressive publications they produce to the wider public. This month’s big exhibitions include Gerhard Richter’s “Prints: at Gagosian Gallery-New York, Antoni Tàpies at Pace Gallery-Geneva, Andres Serrano’s “Infamous” at Galerie Nathalie Obadia-Brussels. Designed in the form of a labyrinth and a work in itself, Christian Boltanski’s exhibition “Life in the Making” at Centre Pompidou takes the visitor to the heart of a contemplation on the preservation of the being. In theatrical fashion, a field which the artist has been exploring for several years, he stages the great metaphor of the human life-cycle, from birth to death. Dora Maar’s Retrospective at Tate Modern will explore the breadth of Maar’s long career in the context of work by her contemporaries and Takis exhibition at MACBA seeks out the essential poetry and beauty of the electro-magnetic universe explored by an artist who was interested in making the viewer recognise the power of the invisible forces that animate the world.

Finally, do not forget the artists and the architects whose names are interwoven with this month, at the column “Traces” the artists: Richard Serra, Mimo Rotella, George Mucuinas, Rosmarie Trockel, Luciano Fabro, Felix Gonzalez Torres και Marina Abramovic. As for the Architects they are: Wang Shu and Rem Khoolhaas

Good Month (!)
4/11/19
Efi Michalarou

Photo: Christian Boltanski, Animitas (Small Souls),  2015, © Christian Boltanski, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery