Madrid,
It is one of the most consolidated events with art and antiques in Spain and this coming Saturday its 47th edition begins in the eighth pavilion of IFEMA: from November 23 to December 1, collectors, antique dealers, gallery owners and directors of Spanish museums and internationals will meet again at FERIARTE, this year with the Golden Age as the protagonist.
Artistic and literary works, decorative arts, furniture and collectibles, whose quality and authenticity is ensured by a committee made up of thirty experts, will have a place in an event attended by seventy exhibitors, including antique dealers and galleries. And although the focus of this edition is the 16th and 17th centuries, we will also admire later pieces of furniture, decorative objects and jewelry in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau style, painting and sculpture from different periods, works of archaeology, tribal and pre-Columbian art. and eastern.
Likewise, FERIARTE resumes its usual Collector’s Gallery, #YourArtan area within the fair dedicated to works with prices under 5,000 euros, an initiative that has been well received so far and is intended to promote the acquisition of art and facilitate access to unique and exclusive pieces to a wider public than usual. With that same objective, an open day will be held on Tuesday, November 26, with free admission for all attendees.
On the other hand, with the collaboration of the professors and students of the Master in Art Market at the Rey Juan Carlos University, the exhibition will launch a program of activities that will offer visitors content on the art market taught by professionals in the subject.
Regarding his exhibition work, we can review some of the works that will meet us at IFEMA. In the decorative arts chapter, one of the great attractions of FERIARTE year after year, we will see pieces in ceramics and porcelain, glass, fabrics, carpets and tapestries, silverware, iron, clocks or globes, which will share space with an important selection of furniture. There will be no shortage of classic Spanish furniture -desks, consoles, rustic furniture-, but also icons of design, Italian and French furniture: chests of drawers, consoles, chairs, armchairs and all kinds of pieces dating back to the 16th century.
In detail: Joan & Joana Gallery will exhibit a delicate collection of French glass vases, including Art Nouveau ones by artist Emile Gallé; and Marita Segovia will show a basin and a fountain, both Italian from the 17th century, and a collection of period seats, such as two Italian armchairs from the 18th century and a pair of elongated stools upholstered in sackcloth, Spanish, from the same date. . At the Miguel Cebrián Antigüedades stand we will see a Gothic leather box with iron fittings, or a gilded console from the 18th century with marble, decorated in fine gold; also a vase in biscuit and gilt bronze, from the time of Napoleon III; a rotating piece in three parts and a neoclassical chest of drawers in walnut and marquetry from the 18th century.
Beatriz Bálgoma will house a Venetian wardrobe from the 19th century or a Salamanca bargueño from the 17th century; Ruiz Linares will present an Andalusian rococo console from 1763, in carved, polychrome and gilded wood, and a ceramic cupboard with a coppery metallic reflection from Manises, inspired by the Alcora models and dating from the second half of the 18th century; while Zulaica participates with a set of neoclassical furniture, such as a polychrome and gilded Italian chair, composed of eight chairs from the late 18th century and with a refined vegetal decoration, or a pair of candelabras Consulate with three lights in patinated and gilded bronze, in the Greek style, which evoke the majesty of the time, and a Louis XVI lady’s secretary in rosewood and violetwood marquetry, decorated with lyre motifs and dated 1780, very refined.
The Swan Gallery, Palacios Antiques, Pascal Avit Antiques, Art Deco Gallery, Ulysse, Altabella Antiques, Enrique García Antiques, Fernando Guerao Art and Antiquities, Casa El Rey IV Generación, García Antigüedades, the Gallery of Art Bernat Simó-Isabel López and the international galleries Miguel Arruda, Bessa Pereira and Nicola Quadri Galleria.
In the paintings and sculptures section, we will contemplate compositions made between the Middle Ages and the present. Soraya Cartategui begins the tour with a collection of works by Flemish masters of the Renaissance and Baroque, such as a Christ on the cold stone (Ecce Homo) of the Master of the Half Long Figures (1528-1530), a Holy Family (around 1525) of the Master of Adoration of Antwerp and Judith with the head of Holofernes (around 1550), by Frans Floris. Its space also includes a Saint Jerome in prayer by Ambrosius Benson, a Crucifixion of Ambrosius Francken II and a knight’s portrait attributed to Isaack Luttichuys.
The Bernat Gallery, focused on the medieval and Renaissance period, will exhibit the Calvary by Bernat Martorell, tempera painting on panel from the 15th century; a Saint Francis Xavier by Claudio Coello and the Piety by Luis de Morales, painted in oil on panel, a faithful reflection of the demanding spirituality of his time; in addition to two portraits of the Master of Budapest, Saint Paul and Saint Peter, both oil paintings on panel from the 15th century representative of Castilian religious art.
The Theotokopoulos firm will bring us closer to flamenco mannerism thanks to the Coronation of the Virgin by Pieter Aertsen, an oil on panel dating from the mid-16th century, while Miguel Cebrián Antigüedades exhibits allegory on the hunta work of the Flemish school of the 17th century. And Ruiz Linares will show an oil painting by Pedro de la Vega Muñoz: Figure standing in front of a gallery of the Alcázar of Sevillefrom 1870.
J. Bagot Ancient Fine Art will attend FERIARTE, among other works, with Mère et fil (Évocation d’Horta d’Ebre) by Pablo Picasso and L’Asphyxie (Paris, 1910) by Anna Mihailovna Zherebtsova, along with pieces by Miró and María Moreno.
Marita Segovia will also offer ancient and contemporary works: the Annunciation to the Virgin by Zacarías González Velázquez, from the 18th century; an engraving by Finsoniu, Circumcision of Christ child by priests (c. 1590-1637); Metamorphosis (Ex-voto) (1960), by Manuel Rivera; Woman running by Ismael González de la Serna; watercolors by Sean Scully and Esteban Vicente, and Gora Bach (1992), by Eduardo Chillida.
Art Petritxol, in transition towards modern art, will show pieces by Anglada Camarasa, Laureano Barrau and Olga Sacharoff; Lorenart, works by Joaquín Sorolla, Fernando Zóbel, Menchu Gal, Juan Echevarría and Marc Chagall; the Beatriz Bálgoma space will host works by Emilio Grau Sala or Julián Graus Santos; and the Jorge Juan Gallery, again by Sorolla, Miró or Manuel Rivera.
Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Saura and Manolo Valdés await us at David Cervelló, while the Galería Hispánica will bet on Mel Brochner and Patrick Hughes, and the Galería Luis Carvajal, on Picasso and The saltimbanque family, The Repetition and Visagecompositions made by the man from Malaga at different stages of his life.
Sergi Sánchez’s space at FERIARTE will contain works by Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Antoni Clavé, Pablo Picasso, Miquel Barceló, José María Sicilia, Roy Litchtenstein, Christo, Eduardo Chillida, Vanessa Pey, Ingrid Emaga (Tina Alabama), Bianka Batlle Nguema , Xavier Déu, Javier Garcés and Joan Brossa, while Jorge Alcolea will bring Matías Krahn, Teresa Calderón or Fabio Colella.
Other firms at IFEMA will be Aleseide Gallery, Ana Chiclana, Alexaria Gallery, Armendia & Morueco, Carlos Teixidó – Art Gallery, Benlliure, Roger Viñuela, Jordi Pascual, Mayoral, Gothsland, Montenegro, López Torres Galería de Arte or Casa Zóbel.
On the other hand, FERIARTE will once again exhibit antique jewelry and watches brought to Madrid by firms specialized in the matter. A brooch will be available to interested parties. Chevalier made in platinum, baguettes and French diamonds from the 1940s; a Tank bracelet in gold of the same origin; and a 19th-century “star” brooch in gold, silver and diamonds from England.
Regarding archeology objects from ancient civilizations, we can see an Egyptian vase decorated with a natural scene and the representation of the goddess Hathor, from the New Kingdom (18th Dynasty); a monumental scroll krater with the death of Hippolytus, from Magna Graecia (Apulia, 330 – 320 BC) or a Pixis with three horses on the lid, from the Greek geometric period (8th century BC).
Several antiquarian bookstore brands will offer us, for their part, books, codices, incunabula, first editions, antique engravings, atlases, cartographies and maps.
FERIARTE 2024
IFEMA. Pavilion 8
Parthenon Avenue, 5
Madrid
From November 23 to December 1, 2024
