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A selection of international galleries is poised to invade the city, and adorn it wonders from around the world. For this 2010 Edition, Art Fair offers a cultural journey through the ochre city and in large spaces of exposure.

The Es Saadi Palace is home to about 30 galleries, of which half comes from North Africa. Local galleries like Tindouf, re and 127 to Marrakech or Shart, Loft and workshop 21 in Casablanca... But also the violin blue and El Marsa galleries from Tunisia. Isabelle Van Den Eynde Dubai Gallery and the Gallery Ward Art & Culture Center in Cairo should be present. Many Parisian galleries join us in Marrakech, including Gallery JGM, but also, Hussenot Gallery, the galleries the Bank, Guy Pieters, Laurent Godin, or even the Gallery Enrico Navarra. In the presence of imminent specialists in the art market in the Arab world, of the round tables on this vast subject, will be places in the patio and gardens of the palace.

In addition to the exhibitions and artistic groups proposed by the Palace Es Saadi, any Marrakech opens his door and let contemporary art. Foundations, riads, Museum, major buildings... All are there to share with fans, places related to the history and artistic heritage of the ochre city.

At the Museum of Marrakech:

"Resonances: contemporary Moroccan artists of the world" From October 7 to December 7, 2010, painting, drawing, installation, video, photography of fifteen international artists, beautify the Museum, by exposing the talent which bind the Morocco to the rest of the world.

In the former agency of the Bank of the Morocco, place Jama'a El Fna square:

"The contemporary African art" collection André Magnin Great collector of African art, André Magnin was Assistant Commissioner "Magicians of the Earth" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Contemporary art of sub-Saharan Africa, presented through a collection of works by artists such as: Chéri Samba de Kinshasa, Romuald Hazoumé of Cotonou, Billie Zangewa in Johannesburg, or Abu Bakarr Mansaray in Amsterdam.

At the Foundation Dar Bellarj

"Around from the tree to talk" It is a thematic exhibition as a dialogue between the Farid Belkahia artist and poet Adonis.

The VAAE, the superior school of Visual arts in partnership with Art Fair, will organize a symposium on arts education in the Morocco.