MIRAGES LXVI

After an extremely difficult period that humanity has gone through and continues to go due to the COV 19 Pandemic, an optimistic message is coming from the art world with Museums, Institutions and Galleries opening this month with new exhibitions, renewed, in compliance with the rules on containment and management of the epidemiological emergency. Showing us, again, the realistic side of art, since it has been replaced for a long time by the World Wide Web with exhibitions, interviews, discussions and podcasts that herald the rise of a new and very interesting era, that changes a lot is changing aside from art and its people.

In this context, this year’s LISTE Art Fair, of which we are Media Partners on a Regular Basis will move online, On the digital platform Liste Showtime (14-20/9/20), 72 galleries from 35 countries will each present one artist who is an outstanding representative of their generation, collectively showcasing the latest developments and trends in contemporary art. Visitors to Liste Showtime will be able to select specific galleries and artists as well as allow themselves to drift through the presentations and discover artists by chance. Liste Showtime also encompasses a poster project titled “Rewriting Our Imaginations”, which was inspired by an essay written by science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson for The New Yorker magazine and was created in collaboration with artists selected by the participating galleries. For the project, each selected artist designed a poster at a time when life as we knew it was disrupted and what had previously existed only in imaginations became reality.

On the other hand, Art Paris Art Fair 2020, also we are Media Partners, is reborn at the Grand Palais (10-13/9/20). It will be the first Art Fair and major cultural event in September in Europe since 6 months. The layout of the fair has been modified with wider aisles ready to welcome some 112 galleries and the maximum number of visitors will be limited to around 3,000 (based on the information currently available). In the section “Common and UncommonStories”, the curator Gaël Charbau shares his vision of the French scene with a selection of 19 artists, most of whom were born in the 1980s. “A common theme around the Iberian Peninsula” highlights Spanish and Portugueseart from the 1950s to the present day. 17 galleries will present some 50 artists. Around 20 solo shows spread around the fair will allow the public to discover or delve more deeply into the work of various modern, contemporary and emerging artists. The sector ”Promises” purposely placed at the very heart of the Grand Palais, “Promises” will host 14 young galleries which will explore rarely represented art scenes, from Europe.

Finally, do not forget the artists and the architects whose names are interwoven with this month, at the column “Traces”, the artists: John Cage, Dennis Oppenheim, Christian Boltanski, Sol Le Witt, Pierre Huyghe, Lucas Samaras, Carl Andre, Matt Mullican, Peter Halley, Mark Rothko, Ilya Kabakov, and the Architects: Fumihiko Maki, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano.

Good Month!
Efi Michalarou
1/7/20