You won't come across him much at fairs, or if you do, only through fleeting appearances at, say, Art Geneva in 2016, or Barcelona's highly specialised Loop Fair dedicated to the video, which is his main form of art. The Franco-Tunisian artist Ismaïl Bahri is not what you might call "market-friendly". This doesn't stop...
You won't come across him much at fairs, or if you do, only through fleeting appearances at, say, Art Geneva in 2016, or Barcelona's highly specialised Loop Fair dedicated to the video, which is his main form of art. The Franco-Tunisian artist Ismaïl Bahri is not what you might call "market-friendly". This doesn't stop him from having loyal admirers, starting with French institutions (to date, the purchasers of nearly three-quarters of his works), followed by (according to his Paris gallery), a major Swiss collector, who remains anonymous, and Joop van Caldenborgh, a Dutch industry magnate whose Caldic Collection includes several contemporary…
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