O ne of the busiest weeks in the French art world’s calendar is upon us, so I wanted to share some insider’s tips and recommendations on the very best♛ that the city has to offer. I have lived in Paris for over twenty years, and know the Marais’s gallery cluster well - including Perrotin, Almine Rech, Thaddaeus Ropac and Jean Bucher Jaeger. I also often ride the metro from one place to another, in hopes of meeting interesting new people!
During Paris+ par Art Basel, there is plenty to keep collectors, curators, art lovers occupied, excited, and thus immune to the fear of missing out. In parallel with the fair, Sotheby’s presents a Modern art-focused exhibition ahead of three different sales — 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Modernités, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Art Impressionniste e💦t Moderne Evening Auction and the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Ar🌠t Impressioniste e🌱t Moderne Day Auction. At our 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:pop-up gallery on Place Beauvau, Antiquities specialist Galerie Chenel and photographer François Halard have been invited to pay tribute to 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Cy Twombly. Highlights from upcoming New York sales have also 💃been split up between both venues.
What follows are my favourite places to eat, read and stroll, all experienced and tested over twenty years living and working 🐎in the city. Have a wonderfu✤l week!
What a marvellous garden to walk around! Situated in the fifth arrondissement in Paris, it is mostly known for housing a zoo. Personally, I see it as an outdoor cabinet de curiosités filled with countless species of plants and animals, a place to learn more about nature, biology, botany. Unlike the Jardin des Tuileries which, in comparison seems almost frozen in time, the Jardin des Pl♍antes keeps changing, evolving, reinventing💜 itself - whether it has been decorated with Christmas lights or turned into a VR hotspot. There is always something new, that makes me want to go back to this urban oasis.
Thierry Meaudre is an art book specialist. There is no-one more welcoming and passionate about what he does. When you enter his bookshop Librairie Lardanchet, you may never want to leave, and start bombarding him with questions instead. He is responsible for ordering all the books that we might need ahead of a sale, because Sotheby’s takes researching very seriousl꧙y. For example, he♑ provided us with all the necessary documentation for our François Halard show.
Le Serpent à Plume, on the Place des Vosges is owned by Alexander Rash and his mentor,💮 auctioneer Jean-Claude Binoche. Together found this café-by-day-speakeasy-by-night hybrid venue. The underground space is home to artworks, which are scheduled to rotate on a regular basis, keeping customers on their toes and eager to come back. This is where I would usually invite an🀅 artist to have a drink. Make sure to check it out during Paris+ par Art Basel - it will be teeming with art lovers!
There are two exhibitions, both dealing with colours, that I highly recommend for visits away from the Paris+ par Art Basel fair. 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Mark Rothko, who is rar🤡ely shown in Paris, is featured at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, which is ꦿnot central (Metro: Les Sablons), but definitely worth going out of your way to visit.
Mark Rothko 'Exhibition' from 18 October 2023 to 2 April 2024
The Nicolas de Staël exhibit at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is the first retrospective since the o♋ne held at the Centre Pompidou, twenty years ago. A quarter o🌳f the display consists of never-before-seen works. De Staël’s career, condensed in fifteen years before his suicide at the age of 41, is represented by over a thousand paintings in various sizes, formats, and materials. Few artists have experimented so much, in such a short period of time.
Nicolas de Staël, until 21 January 2024
I am very excited about the opening of Le Restaurant Blanc, a brand-new gourmet restaurant by epicurean and wine aesthete Pierre Chen and Chef Shinichi Sato in Paris’ sixteenth arrondissement. Originally from H✨okkaido, Japan, the incredible, two Michelin starred chef has been, like me, in France for about 20 years. Le Restaurant Blanc’s cellar has more than 7,000 bottles including some of the world's finest wines selected personally by Chen, the restaurant's Chief Sommelier. It was launched in September. with the 30-cover dining room elegantly designed by acclaimed architect Kengo Kuma, whose work I have been following for years.
Le Restaurant Blanc, 52 Rue de Longchamp, 75116 Paris
Capitaine is also one of my go-to restaurants in the Marais. When I step inside, I feel instantly at home. The owner, Baptiste is one of the nicest, warmest, friendliest people I know. Coincidentally, Michelin’s three-star restaurant L’Ambroisie, where he started off as a young chef, is situated just around the corner. Seasonal, fresh, and based on high-quality products, his food is refined but far from pretentious. My appreciation for it is such, that I keep taking my team. This is also where we host our post-sale dinners. The wooden furniture, the sailor cap on the hat stand, the pirate chest in the corner, all remind me of Saint Malo, in Brittany, where I spend most of my weekends and holidays. One could say I truly treasure this place.
Created by David Lynch in 2012, Silencio always features international DJs from the 1990s, playing early deep house music. And next week won’t be any different. I am very much looking forward to its Paris+ par Art Basel line-up. The program includes Thibaut Lac, often referred to as a modern-day Don Quixote, and Lonnie Holley, aka Sand Man, who has the capacity to tap into a wide range of genres and sounds. I am not surprised that art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin chose this highly exclusive club to host its annual mid-October party during the fair, and have chosen Lucky Love - 🙈a musician endorsed by singer Juliette Armanet and actress Beatrice Dalle - among other talented night owls, to perform until the break of day.
One of the hidden gems in Paris’s sixth arrondissement is the Jean Dubuffet Foundation, created by the artist himself in 1962. Of course, I am biased, because I have been studying Dubuffet, his experimental approach to art, his productivity, for years. Throughout my studies, I would wake up early and peruse various catalogues. The foundation is an exhibition space - where temporary displays meet the permanent collection (paintings, blue𝐆prints, notes, sketches, and documents) - a research centre, and library rolled into one. A must-go!
