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Menart Fair takes over the Palais d’Iéna!
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Modern & contemporary Art + Design fair, dedicated to the MENA art scene
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An ambitious new edition taking place during the European Heritage Days!
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| 15-17 September 2023
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For
its 4th edition, Menart Fair will be held at the Palais d'Iéna, a 20th
century historical monument and the headquarters of the Economic,
Social and Environmental Council (EESC), from 15 to 17 September. This
date is all the more significant as the 3rd assembly of the Republic
will be open to the public, on the occasion of the European Heritage
Days - a key cultural event of autumn.
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A masterpiece of Auguste Perret,
the Palais d’Iéna is home to numerous artistic creations: mosaics and
sculptures by Martial Raysse, tapestries by Aubusson and the Gobelins,
frescoes by Jean Souverbie. Antique in its own way, in a modern
context, this palace is an ode to light and one of the most beautiful Parisian settings for revealing the art of these sunny regions, which are the Middle East and North Africa.
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The hypostyle room flooded with light thanks to its numerous and very large bay windows.
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A solar setting, the double-revolution staircase rises in the bath of light formed by the emblematic screen walls.
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| ©CESE BenoitFougeirol ©Palais d’Iéna.Auguste Perret.UFSE.SAIF. |
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©CESE BenoitFougeirol ©Palais d’Iéna.Auguste Perret.UFSE.SAIF. |
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All the ingredients are there for magic to happen, for encounters, and for love at first sight to occur. Menart Fair will add its choice of referent galleries, its rigorous selection of strong works,
its humanity, its colours, its poetry, its spices, its perfumes and
smells so that a unique moment comes to life: a journey into this luminous and bewitching Orient!
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Located a few steps from the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Musée de l'Homme, the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, the Palais Galliera,opposite the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, Menart Fair will dazzle visitors with the latest creations from MENA. Around 30 ART + DESIGN galleries
are participating in the event. The fair will also host monumental
sculptures and art installations, in partnership with foundations and
institutions. 
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« We
are very happy to position Menart Fair in Paris within the framework of
the Palais d’Iéna. Thanks to the monumentality of its space, we will
develop our artistic proposals in the large hypostyle hall, in dialogue
with the architecture of Auguste Perret, from which our scenography is
inspired.
The fair is growing, both in terms of its artistic content and its
international scope. Our work over the years in the Levant and now in
Europe is bearing fruit: the arts of the MENA region have emerged, as
witnessed by the new influx of collectors and institutions, their
passionate interest, their in-depth knowledge and the space they now
occupy in the media.
The fair is resolutely committed to being a true artistic incubator,
with an outstanding selection, clearly placed under the sign of the
discovery of rising talents in modern & contemporary art + design,
from the Middle East and North Africa. The multiplication of our
mediators demonstrates our desire to accompany and narrate, in a
didactic as well as initiatory spirit »,
says Laure d’Hauteville, founder and director.
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Joanna Chevalier & Laure d'Hauteville
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« The
MENA region is of increasing interest to collectors and institutions.
We were very pleased with the success of our last edition, at the
Boghossian Foundation-Villa Empain in Brussels, where collectors and
institutions flocked.
The MENA is nourished by its great cultural diversity and the
Arab-Persian world is in full artistic expansion. The development of
institutions is quite exceptional: museums, biennials, residencies,
incubators! There are many artists and designers not represented on the
European scene to be discovered »,
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Chevalier, artistic director. |
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| THE ESEC, A HIGH PLACE FOR THE ARTS
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The
Economic, Social and Environmental Council, France's third
constitutional assembly, underlines, both through its work and through
the exhibitions it hosts, the extent to which culture must occupy a
privileged place in public debate and continue to enrich the
much-needed dialogue between citizens within the civil society. Each
year, the Council hosts major artistic events at the Palais d’Iéna
during the contemporary art week, and next September it will host Menart Fair!
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Art is at home at the Palais d’Iéna. To give just a few examples: in
2017 Francesco Vezzoli created an "imaginary museum" lit by pink neon
lights, in which he exhibits classical sculptures revisited with the
help of Rem Koolhaas and the Prada Foundation.
In the same year, a new work by Antony Gormley, based on the human
figure, was exhibited at the Nuit Blanche, in collaboration with the
Thaddaeus Ropac gallery.
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Carlos Cruz-Diez had a solo exhibition there in 2016, in collaboration
with Caroline Smulders and the Galerie Mitterrand, curated by Matthieu
Poirier. In partnership with the FIAC in 2018 and in collaboration with
the Galerie Olivier Malingue, the Palais d’Iéna was taken over by a
series of mobile or kinetic sculptures by artists such as Louise
Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Alexander Calder, Olafur Eliasson, Julio Le
Parc, François Morellet... |
In 2019, a monumental work by the artist Giuseppe Penone, 43 metres
long, was installed in the majestic perspective of the Hypostyle Hall,
in collaboration with the Marian Goodman Gallery.
In 2022, gigantic coloured velums by Lucia Koch were hung under the
curatorship of Matthieu Poirier, on the occasion of Paris + by Art
Basel. |
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De left to right : Lucia Koch, Double Trouble,
2022. Carlos Cruz-Diez, Curation Mathieu Poirier, 2016. Suspension,
Cese Courtesy of Olivier Malingue Ltd., 2018. Photos © Benoît
Fougeirol.
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| PALAIS D'IENA, A MODERN MONUMENT INSPIRED BY THE PANTHEON |
The Palais d’Iéna was designed in 1939 by the French architect Auguste Perret
(1874-1954), one of the first technicians specialising in reinforced
concrete. His work reflects his desire to place modern construction
within a new architectural order of reinforced concrete, defined as the
School of Structural Classicism. He is also the architect behind Paris’
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913), the Salle Cortot (1928), the Mobilier National (1936), and many other major sites in France and abroad, notably in Algeria, Egypt and Turkey.
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| A true visionary, he reinvented classicism and his greatest
achievement, from 1945 to 1964, was the reconstruction of the city
centre of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime). He played a leading role in the
reconstruction of destroyed cities. |
| Formerly and briefly a permanent museum of public works, the Palais
d’Iéna is exceptionally airy and bright thanks to its very large
windows and its emblematic clerestories: the hypostyle hall and the
hemicycle are veritable temples of the sun. Today, the Palais d’Iéna is
one of the major exhibition venues in Paris. |
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| Practical Information
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©CESE BenoitFougeirol
©Palais d’Iéna.Auguste Perret.UFSE.SAIF.
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MENART FAIR
Art + Design from Middle-East & North Africa
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| Dates : |
Friday, September 15th, from noon to 10 PM
Saturday, September 16th, from noon to 8 PM
Sunday, September 17th, from noon to 7 PM
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Lieu : Palais d’Iéna – Centre économique, social et environnemental (CESE)
9 place d’Iéna, 75016 Paris, France |
| Press preview : |
Thursday, September 14th, from 4 PM to 6 PM
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| VIP opening : |
Thursday, September 14th, from 6 PM to 10 PM |
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