Paris art fairs 2025 - 3: any other art...

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Having posted some photos, with brief comments, from Art Basel Paris and Paris Internationale, I simply forgot I'd meant to add a third article about Paris's 2025 October art fairs, this time covering any other art that had struck me since I came back from Greece. This particular post, now that I've remembered to write it, isn't limited exclusively to the fairs; it's really intended to tie up loose ends.

The reason I came back to Paris when I did, mid October, was not only to catch the art fairs, but first of all, to go to a concert in Brussels, written up on my other, opera blog. We had some time to kill before the event, time enough to visit the John Baldessari exhibition at the Bozar, i.e. the very building the concert was due to take place in. It's uncanny how, when in the presence of really good art, you just know it. I liked it a lot.




Back in Paris, the first fair I went to was actually neither Art Basel nor Paris Internationale, but Asia Now. This had been particularly weak last year. But this time, it was livened up with a vivid splash of colour by my friends Mamali Shafahi and Domenico Gutknecht. So, as they had to spend the day at the Paris Mint (La Monnaie) tending the booth, I visited the fair with them.



Mamali and Domenico also had a couple of works in a group show organised in a vacant old flat just behind the Grand Palais, i.e. handy for Art Basel, so I nipped in there afterwards.


And finally, I was very impressed by Pooya Abbasian's installation filling the whole of the Carré de Baudouin (formerly Pavillon le Carré de Baudouin), called In dubio reo, making impressively professional use of the building's awkward spaces.










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