One of Europe's oldest events dedicated to contemporary art, will present this year 168 galleries and 2867 artists

Paris Grand Palais during the fair FIAC

This year the annual fair FIAC Paris unveil stands 168 galleries, which will offer the work of artists 2867. By tradition, the event will be held at the Paris Grand Palais - one of the most beautiful buildings in the French capital, which boasts the largest a glass roof in Europe.

Contemporary Art located in the Grand Palais from 20 to 23 October, the various activities of the fair will also be held in the Tuileries Gardens and the Garden of Plants (Zharden de-Plant) . In the Tuileries accommodate large-scale sculpture, and in Zharden de-Plant - works covering themes of man and nature and diversity of life forms.

At this fair will be presented to the gallery from 21 countries. The predominant picture of Europe - 75%, most - 54 (32%) of the French galleries, followed by the United States - 26 galleries, Germany - 21 Gallery, Italy - 12 galleries, Belgium - 11 galleries, United Kingdom - 10 galleries, Switzerland - 9 art galleries. For the first time at FIAC members come from Brazil, Turkey and South Africa.

distinctive feature of FIAC, as always, will be a variety of names, from the founding fathers of Modernism and Contemporary Art such as Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Stael , Jean-Fote, Wilfredo Lam and Donald Judd to the brightest names of the current art scene, such as Philippe Parreno, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Wade Guyton, Mona Khatum Javier Veylan, Wim Delvaux, Takashi Murakami and Bharti Kher.

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Despite the instability of financial markets and the overall poor economic background, collectors can not be pessimistic: the current level of consumer activity, as recorded by Artprice AMCI index (Art Market confidence Index, the level of confidence of the art market) is 70%. On pleasant thoughts and the results suggest the London auction of contemporary art, held last week, 12-14 October: they showed that demand for the work of first-line high. So concludes Artprice, market background of the 38th fair FIAC in fact clearly positive.

fair FIAC, together with Frieze, - one of the biggest fall art events in Europe, as well as one of the oldest events dedicated to contemporary art. The first fair was held at FIAC 1974 in the Art Basel fair: it was held in a former Bastilskogo station, then it was attended by 80 galleries. The following year, the event moved to the Grand Palais, gaining thus an entirely new scale. In the early 2000s, has undergone a reorganization of the fair due to the fact that, generally recognized as relevant and began to lose its former fervor, to the same in 2003 she got a young rival - the London art fair Frieze. Jennifer Flay Novozelandka (Jennifer Flay), became CEO of FIAC in 2010, says that when the first time in 2004, joined the team at the fair as an art director, "the event was not in good shape. But since then, is constantly working to improve it. " The organizers, according to Flay, decided to return to its former value and the fair again to make it an important point on the world map of art events.

Through the efforts of the organizers, today at the FIAC present the world's major galleries, and also young but already influential dealers who are new authors, and form the trend for this or that author.

is expected that this year's exhibition of her work for four days 85 thousand people will attend.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

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