The paralysis affecting big events is encouraging some gallery owners to launch their own projects: a fitting approach fostering a return to the local dimension.
Small is beautiful. Faced with the pandemic and government health measures that are forcing one major event after another to throw in the towel or withdraw online, including TEFAF, FIAC and Paris Photo, dealers and gallery owners are hastily changing their tactics. In stark contrast with large-scale events, they are now organizing mini-fairs themselves. Not far from Brussels, from January 21 to 24 the Maruani Mercier Gallery is hosting the Warehouse Fair, named after the former tannery it owns in Zaventem, near the Belgian capital's airport. "It's conceived rather in the spirit of the Prada Foundation in Milan, for staging exhibitions," says Laurent Mercier. The venue will feature ten galleries as well as his own: seven from Belgium or…
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