ART FAIRS: Paris+ par Art Basel 2022
Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, have been awarded a seven-year contract to stage a new contemporary and Modern art fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. The new project “Paris+ par Art Basel 2022” of international stature build bridges with France’s cultural to create a flagship event that radiates throughout the city and is firmly embedded in Paris and its cultural scene. The new fair takes place at the Grand Palais’s temporary venue, the Grand Palais Éphémère, located in the historic heart of Paris on the Champ-de-Mars, until the restoration of the Grand Palais is completed in 2024 (Part I).
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Paris+ par Art Basel 2022 Archive
The first edition of Paris+ par Art Basel brings together 156 galleries from 30 countries and territories (including 61 exhibitors with spaces in France) in a new flagship event that further augments Paris’s standing as a cultural epicente. The fair extends beyond the Grand Palais Éphémère through a program of collaborations with Paris’s cultural institutions and its city-wide sector Sites, including publicly accessible works in such emblematic settings as, the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine national du Louvre, Place Vendôme, Musée national Eugène-Delacroix and Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris Galeries: The main sector of the fair will feature 140 of the world’s leading galleries presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawings, installation, photography, video, and digital works. Galeries Émergentes: Dedicated to emerging galleries across the globe, Galeries Émergentes features 16 solo presentations. Exhibitors include Antenna Space from Shanghai; Instituto de Visión from Bogotá and New York; LC Queisser from Tibilisi; Marfa’ from Beirut; Parliament from Paris; Galeria Dawid Radziszewski from Warsaw; sans titre (2016) from Paris and Veda from Florence. Supported by Groupe Galeries Lafayette, one artist from Galeries Émergentes will be chosen to exhibitat Lafayette Anticipations the following year. Conversations: Curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, and located in the atmospheric Bal de la Marine, a docked boat opposite the Tour Eiffel, the Conversations program will provide a platform for dynamic dialogues between leading figures from the artworld and the broader cultural sphere.
Sites: Sites is dedicated to artistic projects taking place in the heart of Paris. For its first edition, Sites will take place in emblematic settings throughout the city, including the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine national du Louvre, where 25 sculptures and installations will be exhibited, as well as Place Vendôme, Musée national Eugène-Delacroix and Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Applications for Sites at the Jardin des Tuileries are open to all galleries, irrespective of their participation in Paris+ par Art Basel. Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine national du Louvre and at musée national Eugène-Delacroix: Organized in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre and curated by Annabelle Ténèze,Director of Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, the exhibition titled “La Suite de l’Histoire”, brings together large-scale works in the grounds of the Jardin des Tuileries and a solo project by artist Thaddeus Mosley in the landscaped garden at the musée national Eugène-Delacroix. The exhibition examines the multi-layered history of the Jardin des Tuileries, including its political and public dimensions, through the work of artists whose practices often subvert and reimagine the role of art in the public realm. Set in a place in which history, architecture and nature converge, the exhibition invites visitors to revisit the gardens in a new way. Highlights include: Danish artist Nina Beier’s “Guardians” (2022), an installation of four toppled marble lions laying on the ground and covered with patches of seeds, attracting the garden’s birds. An installation by Mexican, New York-based artist Raúl de Nieves, composed of three beaded sculptures and titled “Musicians” (2020). French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s sculpture “Blue Obelisk with Flowers” (1992). “The Green Pavilion” (2022) by Frencharchitect and artist Odile Decq, an homage to the Renaissance greenhouse as a space for protection of rare species and social interaction. German artist Judith Hopf’s “Phone User 4 (outdoor)” (2022), a concrete sculpture of a human-sized figure holding a smartphone, addressing the fraught relationship between people and their mobile devices. A sculpture by Austrian artist Franz West titled “Lemurenköpfe (Lemure Heads)” (1992/2000), first displayed at documenta IX in Kassel in 1992. The exhibition will continue at the musée national Eugène Delacroix, which will host a presentation of works by African American artist Thaddeus Mosley, marking the sculptor’s first solo museum exhibition in France. Mosley introduces an installation comprising recent sculptures, ranging in size from miniature to monumental. Heavily carved pieces are balanced against one another in multi-part sculptures, which are contrasted by smaller, mask-sized, tabletop sculptures. Place Vendôme: German-Polish artist Alicja Kwade presents “Au cours des Mondes” (2022), curated by Jérôme Sans. This new installation, her largest to date, is a set of spheres, a recurring motif for the artist, in dialogue with infinite staircases. A veritable initiatory journey in the public space, the installation questions our relationship to knowledge, the universe, and the mechanisms of power. Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris: The exhibition “Karla” by Omer Fast features a holographic projection exploring the eponymous character’s job for a big tech company, as well as ghost-like sculptures and copies of Max Beckmann‘s self-portrait. Together, these elements respond to the 16th-century sculptures permanently on view in the chapel, exploring the inherently ambiguous nature of concepts such as authenticity, time, and reality.
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Info: Paris+ par Art Basel, Grand Palais Éphémère, 2 place Joffre, Paris, France, Duration: 20-23/10/2022, 20/10), Days & Hours: Thu (20/10) 11:00-15:00 (Vernissage upon invitation), 15:00-20:00, Fri-Sat (21&22/10) 11:00-12:00 (VIP Hour, 11 upon invitation), 12:00-20:00, Sun (23/10) 11:00-12:00 (VIP Hour, 11 upon invitation), 12:00-19:00, Admission: Day Ticket €40, Reduced Day Ticket €27( For students with a valid student ID, for individuals under the age of 26 (free of charge for under 12) or Louvre Jeunes, Louvre Professionnels or Louvre Famille card holders), Permanent Ticket €120, Combination Day Ticket and Guided Tour €70, Combination Reduced Day Ticket and Guided Tour €57, https://parisplus.artbasel.com/
