Art Paris 2022: exploring art and nature

Just like last year, the French capital’s Grand Palais Éphémère is once again playing host to Art Paris, one of the highlights of the modern and contemporary art calendar. Located just a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower, this major art fair is not only a showcase for French and Parisian galleries but also those from Europe and further afield.

Galleries present their leading artists and those who they have pinned their greatest hope on. Everything at the fair is up for sale and there’s a great diversity of choice - for all budgets.

"The fair has a number of high profile galleries, at the same time there are what I like to call author galleries, small and medium-sized galleries that have an original line. That’s essentially the DNA of Art Paris. Both the very well-known and discovery,” Art Paris' General Curator Guillaume Piens told Euronews.

The environment and ecology is the noticeable theme this year. Among all the artists exhibited, many deal with their relationship to nature, using organic materials in their work or questioning their carbon footprint. Universal and transversal themes that embrace very current issues according to Alice Audouin, curator of the exhibition "Art and Environment".

"It's a selection of 17 artists, many young artists. There is a real generational phenomenon today, it is true that many young artists address these environmental themes. They were born with the ecological crisis, for them, it's their time, so all those who address reality, who are sensitive and who work on the issues of their time, inevitably cross today's ecological issues, whether it's the climate, biodiversity, pollution."

Cameroonian painter Barthélemy Togo is among several artists in the fair’s 'Natural History' exhibit.