As an extra to the visit, TheWaysBeyond offers you an invitation to the opening of Private Choice, an exquisite contemporary art & design fair nested in a typical Haussmann building. The opening takes place in the afternoon of Sun. 13th Oct. Asia Now, the first Parisian art fair showcasing the diversity of Asia’s contemporary art scene, celebrates its 5th Edition from 16 to 20 October 2019. This year, Asia Now invited
Xiaorui Zhu-Nowell, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim New York, to devise the Curatorial Platform, for which she chose to decide to propose a thematic approach, instead of a territorial one, and focus on the popular internet abbreviation
IRL {In Real Life}. This
IRL {In Real Life} Platform celebrates an emerging generation of artists who are digital natives and whose work critically engages with new media, issues of technology, and the challenges of contemporary art practice within our new sensorial environments. A key place is also given to design, with viewpoints by designers on the potential modular installations induced by the evolution of our lifestyles. Envisioned and adapted for new urban lifestyles, their objects are tools conceived to optimize our living space by redefining it both spatially and conceptually.
TheWaysBeyond invites you for a cultural afterwork to discover the richness of this artistic scene that is still foreign in France. With a mediator, the visit will bring light to contemporary Asian creation promoted by about 50 international galleries, from France, China, South Korea or the Philippines, and create links between cultures that sometimes seem far away from one another, and yet at same time very often share a common ground.