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I CAN'T BELIEVE ANOTHER YEAR HAS FLOWN BY

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I don’ think you can blame me for being confused. Off I went to the Paris Art Show the other day, convinced that it was the FIAC which l had seen in October last year. Re-reading the Blog chapter this morning, l understood why the confusion.                                              TO SORT IT OUT  The FIAC is the rich collectors outlet and I had certainly been snubbed in quite a few of the galleries. The Art Paris Art Fair shows many more of the French artists (l was shocked by the lack of them at the FIAC). There were over 143 exhibitors from the Hexagon and although names which meant something to gallery visitors they didn’t mean much to me. I hadn’t been to the previous show in 2015 which was defined as « curious » as there was a real focus on China and Singapour artists. This year it was Korea with some 90 artists exhibiting. There were other countries too which were represented. Azerbaïdjan, Colombia, Iran Hong Kong, Hungary…. ! I would think that if you were a collect