TEFAF Maastricht ( www.tefaf.com ), the fair of the world's leading art objects spanning 7,000 years of history, will be held from 13 to 22 March 2015 in the Exhibition and Congress Center MECC Maastricht and will include exposure Night Fishing, curated by Sydney Picasso also released a spectacular lobby and pay tribute to the great patron illustrated Pieter Teyler.
TEFAF has invited Sydney Picasso, author and collector, to be the curator of the first edition of Night Fishing, an exhibition designed to complement the TEFAF Modern section, with works by postmodern and contemporary artists. It was decided that the first draft Night Fishing is centered on the sculpture, which is undergoing continual redefinition.
The project title, Night Fishing (night fishing) refers to both technical ancestral night fishing using a light to attract fish to the surface as the famous Picasso painting, Night Fishing at Antibes, 1939 which is part of the collection of the MoMA in New York. The concept emphasizes the large number of objects that can be found at TEFAF, from archeology and medieval art to contemporary works. In total there will be 10 galleries invited to present the work of a single artist.
New lobby
Also new to TEFAF will lobby entrance to the fair. The metaphor "Palace of Arts" has been the starting point for its redesign, conducted by the TPD study architecture and design, Tom Postma ( www.tompostma.nl ), specializing in cultural institutions and arts-related exhibitions, as well as interior design and prestigious shops (the Art Basel fair in Miami Beach, for example, recently held, has also had its share).
Says architect Tom Postma: "The lobby at TEFAF is the place where visitors leave behind normal to get into the magic and mystery of art daily life. For this transition possible, the entry has to be something spectacular, something really unusual. "
The new design will incorporate a play of light on transparent and translucent materials of different textures. This transparent volume creates a canvas that can develop a set of very special lights. For this reason, the lighting design is of key importance, and will be developed in collaboration with Pieter Huijgen, head of the lighting department of the National Opera of the Netherlands.
The legacy of Teyler
This year, the exhibition on loan TEFAF named Teyler's Legacy, Legacy Teyler, and will be held at TEFAF Paper section. A selection of 28 exceptional display drawings from the Renaissance to the XXI century. There will be works of Michelangelo (1475-1564), Rafael (1483-1520), Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Hendrick Golzius (1580-1617), Jan van Goyen (1596 1656), Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1635) and Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669). These works of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries form a sharp contrast with drawings of contemporary European artists such as Guiseppe Penone, Carel Visser, Marlene Dumas and Pavel Pepperstein.
This selection comes from the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, the oldest museum in the Netherlands, which opened in 1784. Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1706-1778), a wealthy banker and merchant Dutch tissues, was a real child of the Enlightenment. Teyler had a great interest in the arts and sciences and gathered extensive collections in both areas. In his will, he left his considerable fortune to a foundation responsible for stimulating interest in the arts and sciences.
Art Symposium
Precisely in the symposium of art TEFAF, the concept of private collector will be explored. Private Goes Public (The private becomes public), analyze what drives private and institutional collectors to share their collections with the public and what motivates individuals and businesses to start collecting.
Source: Logopress
