NARRATIVE – A merger between Fine Arts Paris and the Biennale des Antiquaires, the general event gains prestige by taking over the nave. But it still needs to move upmarket and become more international.
The setting of the new Grand Palais has to be earned. If we are there, we are important. Or likely to become so. This is the intention of FAB Paris, this general Art fair with a name still not anchored in people’s minds, born from the merger of the entities Fine Arts Paris and the Biennale des antiquaires, both definitively buried. Its installation under the glass roof, in the wake of Art Basel Paris (in October) and Paris Photo (in November), gives it quite a spotlight. And a chance not to be missed for the capital to return to a high-level event, worthy of the time of the prestigious biennial. This unique double of antique dealers and jewelers which allowed it to attract the whole world.
The base is there, paved with good intentions, for this third edition to grow, bringing together 100 exhibitors, ranging from Antiquity to the contemporary, a third of them foreigners and a third of new entrants…
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