Biennale of Antiquaries in Paris

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The current Biennale of Antiquaries in Paris Jubilee (25th) and should be more beautiful than all the previous ones. It's not even that, invited by another fashion designer, who will make the entrance to the Grand Palais like a dark cave, filled with roses - then the visitor must be blinded by the light of the dome area of the palace. And the bamboo groves and thickets of flowers, among which will beat the fountains, this spectacular, but not the most important innovation. Biennale of changing the president, who is now an antique dealer Herve Aaron - hereditary art dealer, is configured to breakthroughs.
In the history of the Paris Biennale of Antiquaries was a period when she was the most gala event of antique life in Europe, the most secular, most solemn and brilliant. But it had almost no relationship to current events on the art market. Guide TEFAF fair in Maastricht at the time, gritting his teeth, invited the Gallery of Modern Art, has studied changes in demand and calculated the global potential of investment in art. And the Parisians continued to fill their stands the palace of XVIII century furniture and lure customers gala dinner organized by the main French chefs (no doubt excellent). The need for change became apparent for a couple of seasons ago, but now they are implemented.
Secularism, the solemnity, the palace furniture and high cooking, of course, continue - without them, Paris would not be ourselves. Everything else has changed.
These works are not modern (on the balcony of Grand Palais represent all sections of the collection, from archeology and pre-Columbian era to the art of modernism) - will be a modern look at them.

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Just 13 new galleries are on the list of participants Biennale. Among them, Finch from London, dealing with all sorts of strange rare bagatelles (objets de curiosite), Paris Tornabuoni Art (from the surrealist Giorgio de Chirico to conceptual Alighieri Boetti) and even Marlborough Gallery c triptych by Francis Bacon. 24 galleries among the foreign participants, and all without exception all celebrated. They are specialists on the old masters, the oldest of the existing galleries in the world Bernheimer-Colnaghi, Richard Green from London, which focuses mainly on the Impressionists (at its booth will be painting by Camille Pissarro, bought a year ago at Christie's for $ 2 million), Belgium's Axel Vervordt, known for his passion for eclecticism.

The vast majority of antique dealers - members Biennale - French. And the cornerstone of French antique consciousness - a furniture XVIII century. She is engaged and Biennale president Herve Aaron, in his Didier Aaron gallery, you will see rokaylnuyu sofa in numerous carved legs mid XVIII century, which show along with paintings of the old Italian and French masters. Parisian antique dealers for six generations - the family Kremer (gallery Kraemer) will clock the era of Louis XV, richly decorated with marquetry and gilt bronze, as well as a unique chandelier, which basis - the blue sphere, studded with golden stars (around 1800). Gallery Perrin Antiquaires proud mirrors XVII century Sicily, inserted into glass sculptures frame and two panels with figures of pups from mother of pearl inlaid and shells, such in the XVIII century it was fashionable to decorate the garden pavilions and grottos. But Steinitz sells not only furniture and carved wooden decoration for entire rooms.

It is impossible to enumerate all the species, age and genre of art, which involved two hundred gathered at the Biennale des antiquaires art dealers. Archaeology, Asian art, design (there shaking bedroom, designed to sketch the surrealist Max Ernst, gallery Yves Gastou), silver, sculpture. And of course, painting.

Under the old masters Bernheimer-Colnaghi present painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder (and workshop). Galerie de Jonckheere, as usual, shines with the families of Breughel. In Cesare Lampronti exhibited views of Rome, written by Canaletto.

Under modernism and contemporary art, there is a clear bias towards the first half and middle of the twentieth century. However, in the gallery Boulakia can find work by Jean Dubuffet, and at Marlborough Gallery - Francis Bacon, but this is the wizard though more or less modern, but pochivshie, including at fame. Galerie le Minotaure will present a project on the flowering of Jewish culture in the era of avant-garde (1914-1938).
 
At the Biennale of Antiquaries attend the New York A la vieille Russie - gallery, who became famous for its collection of works by Faberge, through the hands of its owners took a long cherished Easter eggs, cigarette cases, sculptures. Along with the Biennale of A la vieille Russie organizes exhibitions of things from his collection (indoor galleries Didier Aaron), which should be a first step towards the return of the gallery in Paris. During its existence, since 1851, A la vieille Russie, together with the Russian emigration has made almost round trip. From Kiev - in Paris, where in 1920 she became one of the centers of Russian culture. Later, in New York, there opened an office gallery, which after the war was the only one. Tatiana Markina
(log «Weekend» № 35 (181) from 10.09.2010)