Contemporary art is a strange religion, it does not seek happiness or salvation but cultivates the idea of beauty by relying on priests (gallery owners and curators), faithful (collectors), altar boys (artists) and lambs to be sacrificed (artists) ), with a well-structured liturgy.
Its temples are not the Museums, but the Galleries. Which are places that are not only useful for those who buy (kidnapped by beauty, or for the most varied and unspeakable reasons), but for anyone who even wants to understand how taste, sensitivity, visions of the world in which one lives are oriented.
When traveling (and during the weekend), everyone goes to the museum. Few, very few, in the Gallery. “Modern and contemporary art on the thread of paths in the Paris Art Galleries”, so reads the claim of the most awaited edition of the historic Paris Gallery Weekend, a four-day widespread review (from 19 to 22 May 2022) dedicated to gallery owners, collectors, artists.
127 international galleries
The 127 participating international galleries, present in Paris, make it the most important and popular in the world. Widespread art and art to be disseminated. The 2022 edition comes after the Covid break and during the new war crisis, which also upsets the contemporary art market, which is increasingly Russified. We will see how galleries and artists will equip themselves.
Among the seven itineraries (stroll among the vieux quartiers de art in Paris, three of which in the Marais) chosen by the curators (all independent gallery owners), those dedicated by Polka Gallery to Steve McCurry, the collective A Bras Ouverts of the Galleria Continua and Les Drolesses by stylist and activist Agnès B from Magnin-A, a gallery that has supported contemporary African art for three decades.