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French galleries looking for ideas

2020-05-22T13:32:01.139Z


As they reopen, the crisis pushes them to refocus on their real job: cultivating the local and defending their artists, deprived of international fairs.


What will the future look like for the art world? Nothing will be as before or everything will start again, once the old habits take over the urge to reinvent yourself? The debate is launched when the galleries reopened after seven weeks of forced shutdown. The camps clash. Some preach for a more united community with values ​​moving away from the dictates of the art market. A return to art as a cultural good and no longer a purely speculative product. Others believe, on the contrary, that the commercial greed of an environment judged individualistic and self-centered will prevail.

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Faced with the overabundance of fairs and the price escalation, the doorbell has already been pulled! Pseudo-collectors attracted by the glamorous side of art, its dinners and parties are in danger of disappearing. And, in their wake, those who improvised "art advisors". A crisis cleanses the superfluous. It accelerates more qualitative initiatives to respond to a

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Source: lefigaro

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