Culture · Paris
Bodega comes to Paris
Cesar opens a show for a Franco-Moroccan painter the art world has just decided to fall for.
Some of you know Cesar Bouttier — one of ours, who runs Bodega, a community of young collectors that shows emerging artists in beautiful, non-gallery spaces.
On Thursday 2 July he opened a show in Paris for Elias Loudiyi — a Franco-Moroccan painter fresh out of the Beaux-Arts, who has just won the Prix Agnès b., and who paints these unbelievable, photorealistic family portraits sitting right on the line between France and Morocco.
Here is the mad part. The moment word of the show began to circulate, it turned out half of you already knew Elias without knowing it. Meryem already publishes him at Diptyk. One of our collectors has one of his paintings on her wall.
Le monde est minuscule — every single time.
Closed event, and a beautiful one — the kind that reminds you this whole thing is, underneath everything, a small room of people who keep turning out to be connected. ■