MIlano, Mar 18 (askanews) – Tefaf Maastricht is one of the most important fairs in the world for fine arts, antiques and design, which covers 7,000 years of art history, from ancient to contemporary. The 2025 edition sees the presence of 270 merchants from 22 countries and among them there are numerous Italian galleries, which, in some way, are spokesperson for Made in Italy on a cultural level.
Among them Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art in Rome, which brought to Maastricht an important painting by Francesco Hayez and sees in Tefaf a significant opportunity for comparison. “It also becomes a way for us, indeed the only way, living in a country like Italy that has somewhat particular laws, to confront the international market -told askanews Damiano Lapiccirella -. Which compared to the Italian one is completely different, another page of the antiques ». “As a focus-added Francesca Antonacci-we have the second half of the eighteenth century and we reach the early twentieth century, let’s say 1930-40”.
As you can see, the covered period is very vast, and from Hayez we move further back, up to great masters of the seventeenth century, for example in the stand of Maurizio Nobile Fine Art in Milan. «Another work that we exhibit is a magnificent Guercino sheet, this great Bolognese artist, and is a sheet of a freshness, with a state of conservation, I dare say, almost perfect. A new discovery, a new addition to the Corpus del dei dei Fogli of this artist ».
And Guercino is also the protagonist in the booth of another gallery that represents Italy to Tefaf Fondantico in Bologna. “He is a Guercino depicting Egypt on the table – Tiziana Sassoli, owner of Fondantico, told us – is a youth guercino: we are even in 1615 when Guercino worked at Cento at Panini and was a boy of only 25 years old. It is a work that has been highly appreciated. I have negotiations with museums, especially foreigners and even some private individuals showed interest ».
One of the data that emerge from the days of pre -opening is precisely that of the liveliness of the exchanges, which testify to a very lively classic art market. But the economic aspect is not the only one to count. “There is certainly the component of the trade – concluded Attilio Luigi Ametta, but at the base I can I can say not only on my part, but also by Maurizio Nobile, there is a great passion”.
And this passion has a not negligible weight, also in the context of a global trade fair event.
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