The 35th Paris FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain), which is being held from October 23 through 26, features a decidedly international roster. Non-French galleries account for a record 63 percent of the 189 participants,who can be found in two Parisian landmarks: the Grand Palais, off the Champs-Élysées, and the Louvre’s Cour Carrée.

At the Cour Carrée, where a glass and metal structure has replaced the sweltering plastic tent of previous years, booth fees are 30 percent lower and one third of the 75 exhibitors are FIAC debutants, who can be counted on for more affordable offerings from emerging artists. The biggest dealers are situated in the Grand Palais, including the newcomers Sperone Westwater, of New York, Raffaella Cortese, from Milan, and London’s White Cube, which is staging a show devoted to the British conceptualists Jake and Dinos Chapman.

Besides the Chapmans, artists featured in standout displays include the British sculptor Mark Quinn, at Paris’s Hopkins-Custot; the abstractionist Christopher Wool, at New York’s Luhring Augustine; and—in line with FIAC ’s commitment to remain “modern” as well as contemporary— 1950s-era painters Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Jean-Michel Atlan, at Paris dealers Jeanne Bucher and Applicat-Prazan, respectively.

The Grand Palais also houses FIAC ’s Design section— nine galleries, all from Paris except for Jacques Dewindt, of Brussels. And the Tuileries Gardens, which link the Louvre to the Champs Élysées, again feature outsize sculptures. Among the noteworthy pieces on view here are the New York–based Dan Graham’s glass Pavilion, conceived for this year’s event and brought by Hauser & Wirth, of London and Zurich, and Spazio Libero, a steel cage designed in 1999 by the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, who is represented by Christian Stein, of Turin, and London’s Simon 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.