by Stéphanie Pioda
Hendrik Czakainski, Triften, 2022, mixed media on wood, 205 x 140 cm/80.7 x 55.1 in. Wallworks Gallery. PHOTO LUKAS K. STILLER
A fair twice a year? And why not! This is District 13 's schedule for 2022. After having made an appearance in January, during a break in the auction calendar at the Hotel Drouot, the event dedicated to urban art returns in force this September. What was then an emergency solution to revive the fair that could not be held for two years due to Covid and forced cancelations could become permanent. There are rumors of a possible biannual schedule... But for now, it is a matter of finding its regular slot since 2018. District 13 marks its fourth edition with a poster featuring trash punk imagery created by the British artist Dface—of which 300 copies of a silkscreen print will be sold on-site—and with its selection of thirty exhibitors (twenty-nine galleries and one publishing house, Albin Michel) who are mostly French, yet presenting atypical artists. Of note is the Naga Collectivo collective, a non-profit organization created in 2022 whose goal is to raise funds to develop a cultural and social program, the Art'Murs association founded in 2018 (which promotes the works of Alberto Ruce, Carole b, L7Matrix and Primal) and the Street Art Photo Project, which publishes in situ artworks through photography.
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