Another edition of Art Basel Paris (formerly Paris + par Art Basel) is coming around again. With two editions under its belt, this year’s fair is taking its place at the reupholstered behemoth, the Grand Palais. Among Art Basel Paris’s 195 galleries from 42 countries, there are 40 galleries new to the lineup since last year. Plus, a fresh sector, Premise, brings together a selection of unique curatorial projects. As the fair’s director Clément Delépine noted, Art Basel Paris is hoping to distill the city’s art offering in an established manner: “The fair is not a museum, but I believe it still has an institutional responsibility.
While the homecoming to the historic Grand Palais will be a return to form, the scale of the fair can often feel overwhelming. It’s always a pleasure to wander off Avenue Winston-Churchill and see something more compact—such as smaller-scale fair alternatives, like OFFSCREEN, AKAA, Asia Now, and Paris Internationale. But there are also gallery shows across the city to be seen: Here are 10 Parisian exhibitions to check out this fall during Art Basel Paris.
“Deli Dali”
Galerie Marguo
Oct. 15–Dec. 7
If the blockbuster “Surrealism” exhibition at the Centre Pompidou (on view through January 13th) wasn’t satiating enough, more awaits at various galleries throughout the city, including Galerie Marguo. Across paintings and a handful of three-dimensional objects, “Deli Dali” presents 11 historical and contemporary artists. There are works by self-taught painter Gertrude Abercrombie, whose depictions of domestic spaces evoke chimerical atmospheres and an inquiétante étrangeté (disturbing strangeness).
Another notable name is Austrian painter and printmaker Ernst Fuchs, a founding member of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism who created mysticism-infused paintings and drawings. In the selection of contemporary artists, Nicolette Mishkan, an Iranian American artist based in Los Angeles, showcases futuristic paintings that submerge magical mermaids into aqueous realms. Elsewhere, Zheng Zhilin, based in Guangzhou, China, colorfully explores the sinuous dynamism of body language.”
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