15/10/2012
Slick
Le Garage, Paris
7th edition. The fair aims to bring together the vitality of younger galleries with that of more established galleries, working both with recognized artists and tomorrow's high-potentials. Within six years, Slick Paris has become the French destination for discovering and supporting artistic talent.
For the seventh consecutive year, the SLICK contemporary art fair will be presenting in
Paris a selection of galleries known for discovering the latest talents, including artists
from both the emerging and established contemporary art scene. Harking from Ger-
many, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and France, each gallery
has chosen to either place a spotlight on a group of artists in a group show, reveal
the work of one artist in a solo show, or present a unique large scale project prepared
especially for the fair (the Slick Projects).
This year, SLICK is taking over a new space located in the Marais, the city’s hottest
neighbourhood for contemporary art galleries – placing SLICK at the heart of the Pa-
ris’ art scene. Two steps away from the Picasso Museum, the fair will take place over
two floors and under the glass roof of the Garage, a modernist building from 1937,
located in a courtyard that is typical of the Marais’ working class past.
Over the next few pages, we will provide a thematic presentation of the fair through
different angles: in numbers, through a typology of the galleries presented in this new
edition, and by reviewing select works that will be presented.
Founded in 2006 by Johan Tamer-Morael and joined by Aude de Bourbon Parme, SLICK has a new artistic director since 2011, Laurent Boudier. Taking place in October, the Parisian contemporary art fair welcomes an average of 17,000 visitors who come to discover more than 200 artists.
Following two years at the 104 art space and two years at the Esplanade between the Palais de Tokyo and Paris’ Museum of Modern Art, the fair is taking over an old
Garage in the heart of the Marais neighbourhood.
SLICK PARIS 2012 IN NUMBERS
Please find below a few key facts and figures regarding this edition of SLICK in Paris.
39 galleries
6 SLICK Projects
156 artists
48% of the galleries presented in this new edition have already participated in one of the last editions of the fair, either in Paris or in Brussels.
70% of the galleries are less than 10 years old.
70% of the galleries are French. 30% are based in Europe (Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom)
17,000 people, on average, visit the fair each year, over a five-day period.
200 euros: the minimum price for artworks exhibited at SLICK 2012.
Press realtions
Favori: Grégoire Marot et Isabelle Texier +33 (0)1 42712046 slick@favoriparis.com
Preview VIP : Tuesday 16th (invitation only)
Vernissage : Tuesday 16th (invitation only)
Le Garage
66, rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris (haut-Marais), France
Hours:
17 - 21 October 2012 from noon to 8pm (cashiers will close 45mn earlier)
Thursday October 18: late night closing, 10pm
Admission 10 et 7 euros