ART PARIS ART FAIR 2018
The leading modern and contemporary spring art event celebrates its 20th anniversary!
2018 marks the 20th anniversary of Art Paris Art Fair. Echoing its initial vocation of supporting the French art market, Art Paris Art Fair asked exhibition curator and art critic François Piron to take a subjective look at the French art scene. An overview of the French art scene will highlight 20 artists for the 20 years of Art Paris Art Fair who have managed to preserve their independence, or stayed on the margin of mainstream culture and whose work today deserves both to be reinterpreted and enjoy greater visibility.
la recherche de Paul Klee, Véra Molnar, 1972 – Galerie La Ligne
Some monographic exhibitions will notably allow the public to revisit the psychedelic works of 70s counter-culture dandy Frédéric Pardo (LOEVENBRUCK), Hessie’s feminist embroideries and collages (Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre), stencil art by Blek le Rat, who was a pioneer of urban art in the 80s (Galerie Ange Basso), blue monochromes by Geneviève Asse (Galerie Oniris Florent Paumelle) or Vincent Gicquel’s tragi-comic paintings (Galerie Thomas Bernard Cortex Athletico).
“Taking a look at the French art scene implies taking into account a certain number of things that have previously not been considered, as well as rehabilitating certain practices. Only in this way is it possible to produce a more exhaustive and more diversified overview, one that transcends the established narrative. It requires investigating the nooks and crannies of history and what has either been lost or forgotten in past summaries, to identify those artists who, whether they were mavericks or on the margin of mainstream movements, were also at the heart of numerous networks or more informal or deictic relationships.”
