Founded in 1999 Art Paris Art Fair showcases 140 galleries from 21 nationalities in the prestigious surroundings of the Grand Palais.
While French galleries are represented in force, exhibitors coming from the Middle East and Russia as guest of honour bring some exciting new talents.
View the entire set of pics from the fair here
Art Paris Art Fair
Grand Palais
Paris
27 March – 1 April 2013
ART13, created by the owners of ART HK, is London’s new art fair for modern and contemporary art. Taking place at Olympia Grand Hall, it features 129 galleries from 30 different countries with thousands of artworks, including painting, sculpture, photography, prints and editions or multimedia.
Lazarides’ squat featuring Banksy, JR, Conor Harrington and Vhils amongst others attracted many onlookers. Artists like Polly Morgan, Patricia Piccinini unveiled their latest sculptures, while ART13 was also the opportunity for Katrins Fridiks to present her new solo show with Circle Culture Gallery.
From Asia to Europe and Middle East, the selection of artworks was certainly impressive and a breath of fresh air.
This Christmas season East London heads away from the North Pole and goes underground. Set within the Old Shoreditch tube station, SEASON TICKET deliberately spills milk for the Xmas madness and spins Santa on his bobble-head.
With a hoard of amusements and occasionally dark festive fayre, SEASON TICKET presents a street art exhibition, installations, live painting, DIY art stalls and films projections. Over 18’s are welcome to a trans-gender ‘Sink The Pink’ Bad Santas’ grotty grotto. Creative cakes & mulled wine to warm the festive cobbles.
Featuring: Rowdy, Lucas Price, Monkey, Seymour & Co, Dave The Chimp, Alex Daw, Sickboy, Sweet Toof, Russel Morris, Rebecca & Mike, James Jessop, Rory Dean, Peggy ,Tony Lea, Skewville, Cain Casar, Head Hoods, Alex Simpson, Richard Galloway,Alex Booker, Art Against Knives, Five Finger Discount, The Art Collective, Beach London, Vinnie Nylon, House Of Brag + more + special guests!
More pics from the opening HERE
Further info on www.highrollersociety.com
As seen on Arrested Motion.
Following the Frieze week in London (covered here), I headed off to Paris to visit the FIAC, the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain in Paris at the Grand Palais, host to 168 galleries. While Frieze focuses exclusively on contemporary art, the FIAC also combines early 20th century modern art with the contemporary.
Of interest, Karl Lagerfeld designed the booth of Zurich’s Gallery Gmurzynska for the Rebels curated by Isabelle Bscher and featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol as well as Banksy and Scott Campbell. Also, sales were good as reported by Galerie Perrotin who sold a large-scale painting by Takashi Murakami titledAs The Interdimensional Waves Run Through Me, I Can Distinguish Between The Voices Of Angel And Devil! on the first day for over $2 million.
Some pictures from the FIAC:
View the entire set of pics HERE
Every year in October, London becomes the center of the Art world with so many Fairs and simultaneous shows, attracting galleries, artists and collectors to the capital.
The Frieze Art Fair features over 170 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries from all over the world, and you can see all kind of art, contemporary, conceptual, controversial, etc.
Here is a selection from this year:
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View the entire set of pics here
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