South Korea Guest Of Honour at Paris Art Fair
Held at the Grand Palais from 31st March to 3rd April 2016, Art Paris Art Fair is the Springtime Paris event for modern and contemporary that brings together 143 galleries from 20 countries which includes for the first time Azerbaijan, Colombia and Iran.
A generalist fair open to all forms of artistic expression including design, Art Paris Art Fair presents an overview of art from the post-war period to the present day. The thematic sections focus on discovery in particular with this year's Korea guest of honour project, personal exhibitions in the Solo Show section, emerging talents with the Promises section for young galleries and digital art with monumental projections on the façade of Grand Palais.
Under the leadership of guest curator Sang-A CHUN, the invitation of South Korea as guest of honour highlights the vast wealth of the art scene from the “Land of Morning Calm.” With close to 70 artists represented by galleries both from Korea (Seoul, Daegu and Paju-Si) and some 20 Western galleries, this project spans the emergence of very specific forms of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present day boom in creativity.
As part of the celebrations of France-Korea year, exhibitions and installations of Korean art will be visible throughout the capital during Art Paris Art Fair. IBU Gallery, in collaboration with RX and Hakgojae galleries, present “Standing Man” by Chung Hyun, a series of monumental sculptures in the garden of the Palais Royal. The Cernuschi Museum is organising an exhibition of contemporary Korean art from the 1980s onwards along with a number of new rising talents. The Korean cultural centre is hosting a talk entitled “Contemporary Korean art: exploring the past and shed light on the present,” moderated by Art Paris Art Fair Korea Guest of Honour curator Sang A Chun.
Preview (by invitation only) :
Wednesday 30th March 2016 6pm – 10pm
Opening hours : Thursday 31st March 11.30am – 8pm Friday 1st April 11.30am – 9pm Saturday 2nd April 11.30am – 8pm Sunday 3rd April 11.30am – 7pm
