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Paris without the Fiac is resisting

2020-10-23T13:39:52.430Z


In the absence of the large contemporary art fair which should have been held this weekend in the capital, the galleries are fighting back. Challenged to exist, they compete for initiatives. And the small fairs take their revenge. All despite the curfew.


Paris or the French desert?

This year 2020 will be historic for art and its market, deprived of the fairs that usually make the capital boil over a hyperactive week full of openings, dinners, discussions and discoveries.

Since the announcement on September 14 of the cancellation of the Fiac, scheduled for October 22 to 25 at the Grand Palais, a controversy has stirred the world of entrepreneurs who are gallery owners, young and old.

Paris cannot exist without the rest of the world?

In the ranks of battle ever since to survive and assert themselves, art professionals, auction houses and museums also intend to make an act of resistance.

There is no real debate or other choice.

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Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the Fiac cancels its 2020 edition

On a friendly visit to the all-powerful Dominique Lévy from New York, who is moving into Claude Berri's spaces in the Marais, Jennifer Flay, director of the Fiac, does not strut but persists and signs:

"La Fiac 2020 n ' was not viable as it was. ”

Six months ago, Dominique

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Source: lefigaro

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