fourteen places to visit around the contemporary Art fair

THE MORNING LIST

For this 3^e edition of the Swiss fair that has become Parisian, we find an “Outside the walls” program scattered across Paris, and redesigned around ten emblematic places, with new settings. From exhibitions and monumental installations to off-fairs, here’s something to keep you busy this weekend.

The cream of modern and contemporary art at Art Basel Paris

Renamed Art Basel Paris, the third Parisian edition of the Swiss fair which replaced the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC), occupies the majestic nave of the Grand Palais for the first time. Even the most jaded agree: the quality is breathtaking, both in the central square colonized by market leaders, among the young people in the Emergence section, and especially in the new Premise sector, notably with the tribute paid by the gallery Dina Vierny to the visionary merchant Wilhelm Uhde.

As a result of the centenary of surrealism, several exhibitors are shining the spotlight on the great figures of this movement: a couple of women embracing by Wifredo Lam at Applicat Prazan, small drawings by Leonor Fini hung by Pace gallery, a most daring exquisite corpse at 1900- 2000. Without forgetting the unclassifiable Janet Sobel at The Gallery of Everything. R. A.

Goshka Macuga makes his cinema at the Palais d’Iéna

The mix of genres, that is to say the placement of Miu Miu products in the ambitious maelstrom proposed by the artist Goshka Macuga at the Palais d’Iéna, may surprise, even annoy. This project, entitled « Tales & Tellers »nevertheless revisits brilliantly, in the form of a performed exhibition, two artistic initiatives launched by Miuccia Prada’s fantasy brand, partner of the Art Basel public program: the Women’s Tales film commission, which invites international female directors twice a year to create a short film, and video installations by artists women presented during each fashion show of the house.

Londoner Goshka Macuga here deploys 35 performers simultaneously for a live restaging of extracts from the original films. Above heads, the artist also circulates a futuristic newspaper, all in QR Codes, as if fresh from the printing press, to take away. Cinematic atmosphere guaranteed in the spaces of the Economic and Social Council, including its hemicycle, transformed into a cinema. Tales and storytellers galore, between designer elegance and disturbing strangeness. E.J.

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