Come October, dealers, collectors, and journalists visiting London for the Frieze Art Fair will have one more event to add to their jam-packed agendas: a new fair dedicated to contemporary editions, hosted by Christie’s. The inaugural event, fittingly titled Multiplied: Contemporary Editions Fair, will run at the auction house’s South Kensington headquarters from October 15 to 18.
The fair will include at least 30 exhibitors, according to Bloomberg, including the London–based Paragon Press, which sells work by British art stars like Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst. "“Editioned works can be shown at Frieze," Paragon director Charles Booth-Clibborn told the news service. "They just don’t give booths to people who publish them.” Widely considered the most prestigious of the London contemporary art fairs, Frieze generally focuses on big-ticket art.
The market festivities surrounding Frieze’s run have been a bit topsy-turvy as of late, with emerging-art fair Zoo announcing it was going on hiatus after a six-year run and news that a another start-up event, the 20-exhibitor Sunday, will be debuting October 14–16. The Scope Art Fair, which canceled its Hamptons showcase this year and sat out the last London season, has not announced whether it will open in October.
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