FIAC Is Back

October 2008 Datebook

Design Scheme

UnitedKingdom

Uncommon Art

French Translation

Frieze Frame

Roman Holiday

An Affair To Remember

Overdue Ode

Gold Mine

Less of Moore

Old and New

Guest Spot

Christopher Wool Jake and Dinos Chapman Jean Atlan Marc Quinn Maria Elena Vieira da Silva Modern Masters Give FIAC a Boost Celebrity-Studded Graff Charity Auction Sells Out at Christie’s London Exhibit Marks Polaroid’s Passing

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At the Cour Carrée,where a glass and metalstructure has replaced thesweltering plastic tent of previousyears, booth fees are30 percent lower and one thirdof the 75 exhibitors areFIAC debutants, who can becounted on for more affordableofferings fromemerging artists. The biggestdealers are situated in theGrand Palais, including thenewcomers SperoneWestwater, of New York,Raffaella Cortese, fromMilan, and London’s WhiteCube, which is staging a showdevoted to the Britishconceptualists Jake andDinos Chapman.

Besides the Chapmans,artists featured in standoutdisplays include the Britishsculptor Mark Quinn, atParis’s Hopkins-Custot; theabstractionist ChristopherWool, at New York’s LuhringAugustine; and—in line withFIAC ’s commitment to remain“modern” as well as contemporary—1950s-era paintersMaria Helena Vieira da Silvaand Jean-Michel Atlan, atParis dealers Jeanne Bucherand Applicat-Prazan,respectively.

The Grand Palais alsohouses FIAC ’s Design section—nine galleries, all fromParis except for JacquesDewindt, of Brussels. And theTuileries Gardens, which linkthe Louvre to the Champs Élysées,again feature outsizesculptures. Among the noteworthypieces on view hereare the New York–based DanGraham?s glass Pavilion, conceivedfor this year’s eventand brought by Hauser &Wirth, of London and Zurich,and Spazio Libero, a steelcage designed in 1999 by theItalian artist MichelangeloPistoletto, who is representedby Christian Stein,of Turin, and London’sSimon Lee."FIAC is Back" originally appeared in the October 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's October 2008 Table of Contents.