{"id":13307,"date":"2016-09-13T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T09:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=13307"},"modified":"2016-09-13T14:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T12:11:31","slug":"biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Biennale des Antiquaires&#8217; last edition: for Paris it is a new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13307 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/dsc05477\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC05477-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13312\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13312'>\n\t\t\t\tA collection of table clocks by Cartier, at Martin du Daffoy gallery.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/dsc04850\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC04850-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13309\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13309'>\n\t\t\t\tFollower of Hieronymus Bosch, Temptations of Saint Anthony, detail, at De Jonckheere gallery.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/dsc05381\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC05381-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13311\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13311'>\n\t\t\t\tRepublic of Spain Pavillion at the International Exhibition (1937), at Mayoral gallery.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/boldini-statua-nel-parco-di-versailles-1894-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"87\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Boldini-Statua-nel-parco-di-Versailles-1894-1-278x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13308\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13308'>\n\t\t\t\tGiovanni Boldini, Statue in the Park of Versailles, c. 1894, at Bottegantica.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/dsc05169\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC05169-320x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13310\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13310'>\n\t\t\t\tFederico Zandomeneghi, Pigalle square, 1907, at Bottegantica. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/dsc05255\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC05255-320x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13313\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13313'>\n\t\t\t\tWall lamps by Palle Suenson at Dansk M\u00f8bel Kunst.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/09\/13\/biennale-des-antiquaires-last-edition-for-paris-it-is-a-new-beginning\/dsc05012\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC05012-320x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13314\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13314'>\n\t\t\t\tConsole and bookcase by Jean Prouv\u00e9 at Laffanour Gallerie DownTown.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome wealthy people like mega yachts, some others prefer to build their own art museum\u201d told yesterday to CFA fine art dealer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robilantvoena.com\/\">Marco Voena<\/a>, who these days is taking part with his business partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robilantvoena.com\/\">Edmondo di Robilant<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biennale-paris.com\/\">Biennale des Antiquaires<\/a> in Paris (until September 18<sup>th<\/sup>). A few of them do have both, we may add, and generally these people don&#8217;t like to visit art fairs \u2013 but that would probably be another story. The point here is that the current and actually last edition of the Biennale des Antiquaires (from 2017 it will become a yearly event, like the Tefaf or Frieze Masters) is doing much better than expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paris is so sunny and warm at the moment that you naturally don&#8217;t care too much about the many armed cops and group of soldiers looking after the city. They are now a main visual effect of the terroristic attacks, but the feeling of being in a dangerous place is not the same as it was before the summer. The sirens that made the soundtrack of Paris so similar to that of New York are no longer blowing, and that is a great news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The other great news concerning the Biennale \u2013 its new name is yet to be decided \u2013 is that the works of art are not sharing the room with haute joaillerie anymore. \u201cThey are very different kind of luxury items\u201d comments Voena and, what counts more, they aim at a very different kind of public. One thing is presenting a unique collection of table clocks by Cartier, as Parisian expert in antique jewelry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-du-daffoy-achat-vente-bijoux.fr\/\">Martin du Daffoy<\/a> is doing this year. Another matter is exhibiting brand-new jewels\u00a0 branded by fashion firms \u2013 that potentially would fit better in a main contemporary art fair. James Ellroy would call it \u201ccompartmentalisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, the general public likes to visit commercial fine art fairs, that are certainly more dynamic than museums and somehow much more lively. Art dealers and their assistants are always keen, at least when their precious clients are not around, to provide you with the piece of information that may turn a plain visit into a remarkable experience; and that marks a difference, especially when galleries are proposing curated exhibitions, which alone would deserve to pay the price of the ticket. It is the case, for instance, of the seven previously unseen paintings gathered together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dejonckheere-gallery.com\/it\/accueil-3.html\">De Jonckheere gallery<\/a> under the title \u201cBosch, the close circle\u201d. In the year that has seen two pivotal exhibitions celebrating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/08\/27\/500-years-anniversary-of-hieronymus-bosch-death-calls-for-a-rare-dino-buzzatis-writing\/\">500 anniversary of the artist&#8217;s death &#8211; at the Het Noordbrabants Museum in \u2018s-Hertogenbosch and at the Prado<\/a> \u2013 these paintings shed some light on painters such as Pieter Huys and Jan Mandijn, who were highly respected interpreters of the works produced by the master and his productive studio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting exhibition has been organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeriamayoral.com\/\">Mayoral gallery<\/a> from Barcelona, and it is dedicated to the \u201cRevolutionary artists\u201d who, in 1937, took part to the Spanish Republic pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris. Among these artists were Pablo Picasso, who presented Guernica, Joan Mir\u00f3, Alexander Calder, Julio Gonz\u00e1lez. Josep Lluis Sert and Luis Lacasa were the architects who designed the pavilion, now partially reproduced in its original scale inside the gallery booth. Is this political statement ambitious enough for an ambitious art fair in Paris?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the new entries at the fair &#8211; which now can count on a brand new portable X-ray machine at disposal of its 80 members efficient vetting committee &#8211;\u00a0 we would like to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottegantica.com\/\">Bottegantica<\/a>, a gallery currently based in Milan and committed to Italian painting from the XIX century. \u201cWe are extremely happy to be here, we are meeting many interesting collectors\u201d comments Chiara Zanga, the gallery director. The quality of the painting by Federico Zandomeneghi they are exhibiting is impressive, but if you don&#8217;t have the 850.000 euros required to take it back to your living room you should have a look at the crispy small painting by Giovanni Boldini representing a statue in the park of Versailles. It is of course a less expensive piece than the Zandomeneghi\u2019s, but it is probably even more representative of a period of the Italian art that is still undervalued by the marked. Unfortunately it&#8217;s quite rare to see this kind of pieces at the international art fairs &#8211;\u00a0 as it is also difficult to see Italian paintings from the 1930s, which would be another extraordinary field to discover, especially in Paris, despite the political regime ruling Italy at that time. But those are the magic words for having a successful art fair and an effective selection committee (headed this year by former Louvre director Henry Loyrette): research and openness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And elegance we should add. The idea of merging the many visual ingredients of the art fair instead of organizing them in sections is absolutely correct and coherent with the current taste. We have been extremely glad to finally see design pieces of outstanding quality &#8211; such as the unique console and bookcase by Jean Prouv\u00e9 presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeriedowntown.com\/\">Laffanour Gallerie DownTown<\/a> or the two beautiful wall lamps by Palle Suenson at Dansk M\u00f8bel Kunst &#8211; sharing the room with old masters, modern painters and classic sculptures. This is how the art fairs of the future will\u00a0look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cSome wealthy people like mega yachts, some others prefer to build their own art museum\u201d told yesterday to CFA fine art dealer Marco Voena, who these days is taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[2098],"class_list":["post-13307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-biennale-des-antiqauires-2016"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}