Oggi apre a New York Tefaf Spring che ritorna dopo il grande successo della scorsa edizione.
Mentre negli spazi del Tefaf
di Maastricht l'attenzione è sui 7,000 anni di storia artistica mondiale qui il
tempo è più ristretto e si propongono le opere di questi ultimi decenni, legame
sempre l'alta qualità delle proposte, selezionate dai migliori specialisti dei
diversi settori culturali.
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TEFAF, the not-for-profit
foundation that organizes three art fairs internationally—TEFAF Maastricht,
TEFAF New York Fall, and TEFAF New York Spring—is partnering with Artsy, the
global platform for discovering and collecting art, to bring artworks from the
fair’s unparalleled group of international fine and decorative arts dealers to
a worldwide audience online for the first time. The partnership will include
exclusive online previews for TEFAF New York Spring (May 4 – 8, 2018) and TEFAF
New York Fall (October 27 – 31, 2018), allowing collectors to browse dealers’
booths a week before the fair opens to the public. In addition, Artsy and TEFAF
will launch a new online initiative, TEFAF TWENTY, on May 15 that highlights a
rotating selection of TEFAF exhibitors on Artsy.net. The initiative will be an
ongoing program to support galleries and showcase highest quality for-sale
inventory online between Fair exhibitions.
The partnership represents an
an important synergy between the two organizations and their unique domains of
expertise—TEFAF’s unrivaled emphasis on connoisseurship and quality and Artsy’s
best-in-class 21st-century technologies. Through TEFAF’s presence on Artsy, any
collector in the world will be able to access TEFAF’s extraordinarily rare
treasures and masterpieces from all eras, vetted by the most respected experts
in the worlds of art and antiques.
“Partnering with Artsy is an
opportunity to broaden TEFAF’s reach into the digital community to engage a new
generation of developing and more seasoned collectors who are increasingly
using online sources for making decisions on their art purchases,” said
Co-Managing Director of TEFAF New York Michael Plummer.
Since launching in 2012, Artsy
has forged relationships with thousands of galleries, auction houses, art
fairs, and institutions to help them grow their businesses online. Enabling the
growth of the overall art market, Artsy provides its partners with
industry-leading technology services and access to their vast and growing
audience of over one million users. Artsy connects buyers with sellers from
around the world, offering over $10 billion of total inventory currently
for-sale on Artsy.
“TEFAF’s fairs are among the
very best in the world, with the quality of their art, expertise of their
dealers, and their vetting committee setting the standard for the industry,”
said Artsy’s president, COO, and co-founder Sebastian Cwilich. “As Artsy
expands, we see growing demand from collectors for a more diverse offering of
art categories—from prints to old masterpieces—so it’s exciting to bring not
only works from TEFAF’s modern and contemporary dealers in the spring but also
masterpieces and classical works from TEFAF’s fall fair, which offers art
spanning antiquity to 1920.”
“As TEFAF expands further into
the Modern and Contemporary sector of the Art Market with its second edition of
TEFAF New York Spring, Artsy’s strong presence in this domain make it an ideal
online partner for TEFAF,” said Co-Managing Director of TEFAF New York Jeff
Rabin.
TEFAF New York Spring, which
launched in May 2017, is dedicated to modern and contemporary art and design,
and will feature 90 exhibitors, among them 24 new participants including
Gagosian, Gladstone Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, Lévy Gorvy, Matthew Marks
Gallery, and Taffin. A selection of TEFAF New York Spring exhibitors will also
feature jewelry, African and Oceanic art, and antiquities to highlight how the
art historical canon has influenced some of the greatest modern and
contemporary artists.
