Returning for its ninth edition, Paris Internationale has brought together 70 exhibitors at the Central téléphonique Le Cœur, an iconic building in Paris’s 9th arrondissement that is now a dusty and somewhat dilapidated raw space. Focusing on younger galleries from across Europe, the US, and Asia, the fair largely stands in opposition to Paris+ par Art Basel, with few well-known names on view here. ligaplay88
The fair’s best grouping of paintings comes courtesy Murat Önen, whose groupings of bodies—some pictured during orgies—meld into abstractions. The booth’s central work is a triptych, You wrote me this lullaby, shows three men asleep in a bed that serves as the work’s lefthand panel. The central and righthand panels are blank pieces of grayish stretched linen, to which Önen has affixed five oil-on-paper works. In one, a figure is subsumed by flowers, while another features a body kneeling against a green wall that blurs beyond figuration. ligaplay88