Hot on the heels of Paris Photo, FIAC will stage a Los Angeles edition in April 2015, the French art fair awith Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts, former director of the Thaddaeus RopacGallery, at its helm.
It will be the first international outing for FIAC, which is held each October in Paris’s Grand Palais. In a press release, Jean-Daniel Compain, director of the cultural division of Reed Exhibition, which owns FIAC, suggested that Los Angeles had been chosen because it is “extremely dynamic.” The city has lately become an increasingly popular center for art fairs, in part due to its geographical proximity to Asia and Latin America, two of the art world’s biggest markets. Around 150 exhibitors are expected to participate, with the dates yet to be announced.
Paris Photo held its inaugural Los Angeles event last April, drawing a slew of influential visitors from both inside and outside the art world, including Michael and Eileen Cohen, Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Timothy Potts, Franklin Sirmans, David Lynch, Sean Penn, Drew Barrymore, Orlando Bloom, Jodie Foster and Liz Goldwyn. Its second edition is scheduled for April 25 to 27 (see our video interview with the show's director Julien Frydman here).
