ASIA NOW
Friday, October 22th: visit of the contemporary art fair ASIA NOW in the Hoche Salons.
This ink year, a few Friends came to discover the seventh edition of this Asian contemporary art fair. The theme was to ask about the Arts of Living in a Damaged World. The fair has widened its scope to Western Asia by inviting nine Iranian galleries and artists from Tehran who will be present for the first time in Paris. A total of forty galleries presented two hundred artists
Like every year, the fair hosted group and individual exhibitions proposed by the participating galleries, as well as special projects, including a series of off-site installations, artist video projections and a cycle of performances. and conversations.
Artists of Asian origin were however numerous with famous names like Zao Wu-Ki, Ma Desheng, Lee Ungno or Young-Sé Lee, some others already known by their participation in previous editions and new talents.
Figurative or abstract, paintings, sculptures, installations and ceramics offered a varied panorama of oriental artistic activity of great richness.