The main attraction took place at Axel Vervoordt Gallery’s stand with a performance by Japanese artist Sadaharu Horio who, for the price of just €1, created a unique drawing for each visitor; it was a long wait, but H A P P E N I N G got theirs!
The Axel Vervoordt booth stood alongside New York-based Gladstone Gallery where a series of eight Jim Hodges drawings were on display, the charcoal black and blue studies were on offer at $700,000. At Continua, a Pistoletto diptych, featuring his signature broken glass, was at €280,000.
In Hall 3, the home of the emerging galleries, the Parisian Sémiose Gallery payed homage to the “présence Panchounette” movement, developing in Bordeaux from 1969 to 1990, whilst Polish gallery Leto presented the artist Aleksandra Waliszewska, noted by Maurizio Cattelan for her moving drawings that play on the Brothers Grimm tales.
