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\n\tAir de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery\u2019s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, tell Cultured<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBonnefous says the gallery owes money only to the landlord and the bank, not her artists. The gallery is closing, per Cultured<\/em>, due to its \u201cfragile\u201d finances as well as the founders\u2019 health (Bonnefous suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Mennino also has unspecified health issues).<\/p>\n \n\tThe gallery worked with artists including Trisha Donnelly, Joseph Grigely, Pati Hill, Pierre Joseph, Allen Ruppersberg, Lily van der Stokker, Mona Varichon, and Amy Vogel, all of whom were included in its farewell exhibition, \u201cOh What a Time,\u201d notes Cultured<\/em>, adding that the dealers were early advocates for now-renowned figures such as Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Carsten H\u00f6ller, Pierre Huyghe, Dorothy Iannone, Paul McCarthy, Philippe Parreno, and Sturtevant.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cLittle by little,\u201d Bonnefous told the magazine, \u201cwe realized we wanted to do things differently, and while reasons for closing are a mix of many things, it was also very important for us to distance ourselves from how the art market has developed,\u201d adding, \u201cWhat is more surprising is that we lasted as long as we did.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBonnefous tells Cultured <\/em>that she will continue to maintain the estates of Guy de Cointet, Pati Hill, Dorothy Iannone, Bruno Pelassy, and Sarah Pucci, and will continue to work as a curator.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tNamed after a readymade by French artist Marcel Duchamp, the gallery was founded in 1990 in Nice, headquartered in Paris since 1994, and located in the Romainville suburb since 2019. The gallery participated in leading art fairs such as Art Basel and the Foire Internationale d\u2019Art Contemporain (FIAC).\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAir de Paris made headlines a year ago, when it loudly withdrew from Art Basel\u2019s June 2025 Swiss edition in protest over a change to its placement on the all-important floor plan, after it had participated in each edition of the fair\u2019s Swiss edition since 1999 and served on the selection committee for Art Basel Paris since its first edition in 2022. In its resignation letter, the gallery bemoaned \u201cthe recent trend towards a more corporatist model,\u201d saying it had \u201cgiven priority to managerial efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/french-gallery-air-de-paris-declaring-bankruptcy-closing-1234785172\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cf15airdeparis-7.jpg?w=1024″] Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery\u2019s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, tell Cultured.\u00a0 Bonnefous says the gallery owes money only to the landlord and the bank, not her artists. The gallery is closing, per Cultured, due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1931900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}