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Arco Madrid Created a Market Moment for Spanish Art—But the Pandemic Kept International Galleries and Visitors Away
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Two Hippes (2020). Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
There’s been no shortage of grumbling about the never-ending parade of virtual art fairs and about how “online viewing rooms” (or OVRs) are, really, just another website. Nevertheless, dealers and collectors alike appeared this week to be enthusiastically embracing the virtual edition of the high-profile French fair known as FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain).
The VIP preview days started on March 2 before the fair “opened” to the broader public on March 4. (It runs through Sunday, March 7.) After a full-year of lockdown, it appears both organizers and exhibitors have been stepping up their game when it comes to online presentations.
Nothing predestined Chantal Crousel to become one of the most successful gallerists in Paris.
Born in Belgium as the daughter of a bank manager, Crousel was working in Brussels as a secretary for a forklift truck company when, one day, she spotted a drawing by Man Ray in a storefront window. This serendipitous acquisition propelled Crousel to move to Paris, study art history, and become a gallerist. She inaugurated her eponymous gallery near the Centre Pompidou in 1980, where early exhibitions on artists from Alighiero Boetti to Cindy Sherman revealed Crousel’s international outlook and intellectual curiosity.
In 2005, five years after her son Niklas Svennung joined the gallery, Crousel relocated to the Marais, which is the city’s main gallery district today. The gallery continues to represent a broad stable of artists, including Gabriel Orozco, Mona Hatoum, Glenn Ligon, Haegue Yang, Jean-Luc Moulène, and Mimosa Echard.