Meet Applicat-Prazan
Get to know Franck Prazan whose Paris-based gallery Applicat-Prazan is participating in Art Basel's Miami Beach show for the first time and will exhibit a variety of works by Pierre Soulages, Zao Wou-Ki, and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, among others.
"First of all, I could not sell whatever I would not consider buying. This is the key." - Franck Prazan, owner of Applicat-Prazan
Growing up in the heart of Paris with a gallery founder as a father and the Centre Pompidou as a next-door neighbor, Franck Prazan has never known a day without art. Even today he lives at the plaza of the Centre Pompidou and remembers watching as a child the iconic museum being raised from the ground up.
"My father was fascinated by art. I went with him every Sunday morning to museums; it's always been a part of my life…" The genesis of the gallery goes back to Franck's father, also an art collector, whose original program centered on artists from the Post-War School of Paris. Twenty-six years later, Franck, an avid collector of post-war French painter Martin Barré, has honored his father's legacy by maintaining the same program to this day.
When asked what makes a work of art good, Franck says "You can tell. That's all I have to say. If you have to question about it, then it's not good enough."
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