The 36th edition of FIAC, brings together 180 modern and contemporary art galleries in Paris from October 22-25 at the Grand Palais, the Cour Carrée of the Louvre Museum, and in the Tuileries Garden.

For the fourth consecutive year, in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, FIAC presents a program of outdoor projects in the Jardin des Tuileries. The growing interest for this annual event among galleries and artists–together with the exceptional beauty of the site–has enabled them to bring together over fifteen projects, including sculptures, installations, performances and ephemeral creations, deployed in the garden’s fountains, basins, lawns, alleys and groves.

For FIAC 2009, Laurent Tixador has created “Jumping Beans”–an elevated wooden structure where he will live for the duration of the exhibition. The structure will move as he moves, much like the worms that live in the Mexican jumping beans.

Born in 1965 in Colmar, France, Tixador lives and works in Nantes. An “art adventurer,” his projects have a utopian intention: he aims to achieve the impossible while maintaining the absolute conviction that it is in no way useful. His actions are often extreme; for example the multiple expeditions he made to Greenland before becoming the first artist to plant a flag on the North Pole.