Fair Antiques and Fine Arts in Brussels

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Brussels Fair Antiques and Fine Arts (BRAFA) among the three largest antique fairs in Europe. It is as old as the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires. And presents almost the same stringent requirements for the authenticity of items, as Maastricht TEFAF. Although still far short of bombast, and the first museum-quality and high cost of the second, is nevertheless an important event in the calendar collector.

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One feature of the fair - the continued number of participants. Their 130 - half Belgian, half foreign, and the exhibition space is divided equally among all. Last time, fair is held in the Exhibition Center Tour & Taxis, who was named in honor of the Italian princes - the founders of the European postal service whose names are in Belgium, were transformed into Von Thurn und Taxis; its area of 12 thousand square meters. m. antique shops in the complex will be located along the three "lanes" - so that each participant was given equal attention to the public. The fair covers all historical periods - from antiquity and pre-Columbian America to modern art. Interestingly, the organizers are baked and the fact that all types and ages of art were presented in more or less equal proportions. "We are trying not to overload certain sectors, in particular the section of paintings of the XIX century, and to develop others - archeology, modern art," - said President Fairs Grete Zeberh. Sisyphean labor, but the organizers know better.

This year BRAFA participates Russia gallery - Ravenscourt Galleries. The gallery deals with Russian and French art of the twentieth century, regularly holds exhibitions in Moscow and managed last year to take part in Shanghai Shanghai Fine Jewellery and Art Fair, remaining, so our only gallery of old (not modern) art, participating in overseas trade fairs.

The booth will Ravenscourt Galleries exhibits works by Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Alexandra Exter, along with pictures of Fauvism and modernists Maurice Vlaminck, Albert Marquet, Bernard Buffet.

The theme is more or less internationalist modernism developing many Parisian galleries, participating in the fair. At the stand of Galerie Beres could see bright avant-garde painting of Alexandra Exter's "Composition: city" 1916-1917 period and the dark "brown song" Pierre Soulage 1919. Campo & Campo Antwerp shows Cubist painting "Lake Como" Ossip Zadkine.

Paris gallery pleasure flaunt the Impressionists and their predecessors. Tiny Type Mount Testaccio "Camille Corot neighbors at Galerie Eric Coatalem with erotic drawing" Two friends "by Gustav Klimt and still life of XVII century. In this manner - mixing not-so-distant time, but separated by a huge gap in terms of periods of art history - is now underway, many galleries. While there are those who focus on his subject. How, for example, some Parisian antique dealers of Hungarian origin, which exhibit extremely Parisian artists - also of Hungarian origin.

Galerie Cybele deals only with the art of ancient Egypt and the antiquity. Gallery will bring to the fair a bronze sculpture of an ibis and germanium with a marble head of Hermes. Swiss Phoenix Ancient Art, one of the most respected galleries of the world, selling antiques, shows the alabaster head of a child, like a little angel (I century BC. E.), And the stern of an ancient Greek bronze helmet (V century BC. E.).

At the fair, two dozen galleries, the arts of China and Japan varying degrees of antiquity, two respected second-hand bookshop. BRAFA invites and galleries involved in jewelry art. But this picture shows almost exclusively antique jewelry (unlike, for example, TEFAF, Biennale des Antiquaires or Fine Arts in Moscow Manege involving modern jewelry brand with new developments).

Alexandra Exter. "Composition: city", 1916-1917 years. Galerie Beres