TEFAF is coming to a close tomorrow after, once again, wowing the crowds in Maastricht! This year TEFAF added new life to the fair including a contemporary curated show by Sydney Picasso and a mobile app for the fair. No one puts it better than the Economist.
“Suspicions had been growing, though, that TEFAF’s dealer-managers had become complacent and resistant to improvements. So one of the happy surprises of this 27th show is that it has lightened up—and not only metaphorically. Signs of change begin at the entrance. A previously claustrophobic, if tulip-lined, tunnel, has been hung with fluttering, transparent white panels; white roses in glass vials are suspended from the lofty ceiling. The vast, dreary cafeteria has been replaced by food bars dispensing lobster, sushi and the like, freeing up space for a contemporary art display. However, with contemporary art fairs multiplying like very expensive rabbits—and one of the most influential, Art Basel Hong Kong, clashing this year with the Maastricht show—TEFAF rightly concentrates on its many strengths: Old Master and Modern paintings and sculptures, antiquities, antiques, works on paper, and jewels of all periods.”
To read the full Economist article, click here.
An image from curator, Sydney Picasso’s show. To read more about this show click here.
Image courtesy of Art Net.
Mallett, one of our favorite antique dealers at the show this year.
Image courtesy of Mallett.