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I've no intention of writing a blog post every time I visit a gallery, but I must say I how impressed I was by the new Fitzpatrick Gallery on the rue de Turenne - both the new space and the curating of the opening exhibition, Still Time . Even if you don't like all the works in it (and you rarely do), a well-curated group show - the choice of the artists and works and the way they are displayed together - is a pleasure in itself, as I think I implied in my earlier posts about Parallel Circuit in Tehran and Everyday in Antwerp . In this case, the exhibition was curated personally by owner Robbie Fitzpatrick, whose booth at Liste in Basel caught my eye for the same reason. I was especially glad to see a polychrome limewood relief by Mathis Collins, a favourite of mine, there; a large painting by Vittorio Brodmann - I like to see what he's up to; and a small one of peaches by Ulala Imai, whose engaging painting of bacon and eggs, similar in size, had already caught my eye at...