Modena, kicking off the 32nd edition of Modenantiquaria. Here are some of the proposals

The 2018 edition of Modenantiquaria, number thirty-two of the important antique art fair that will once again occupy the spaces of Modena Fiere, will be held in Modena from February 10 to 18. This year we will see in Modena a fair with a renewed look, along the lines dictated by Paolo Fantuzzi, CEO of Modena Fiere, already three years ago. In particular, a more rational organization of spaces that will guarantee greater services to both the public and exhibitors, with the aim of making Modenantiquaria a “great international living room of antiques,” as per Modena Fiere’s goal. For a week, gallery owners, collectors, enthusiasts, critics, journalists and scholars will meet among the pavilions of the Emilian market exhibition in search of pieces for museums and public collections.

“Modenantiquaria 32,” Fantuzzi emphasizes, “will be a sparkling, lively, fresh event, capable of attracting, as it has already begun to do in the most recent editions, those new audiences that are indispensable to guarantee vitality to a sector that seemed to have run aground. The record of 36 thousand visitors surpassed by Modenantiquaria 31, testifies, together with the commercial vivacity, to the turnaround that has taken place.” The main novelty of edition number 32 is the strengthening of the vetting service, i.e., the supervision of the quality of exhibitors and exhibits to guarantee buyers: “we want to be the reference event for those who seek excellence and like to confront a wide and diversified offer, which is excellently guaranteed here,” Fantuzzi points out.

The 2018 edition will feature 100 exhibitors. Modenantiquaria will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admission tickets: full 15 euros, reduced 12. Modenantiquaria is sponsored by Associazione Antiquari d’Italia, Associazione Antiquari Modenesi, Federazione Italiana Mercanti d’Arte. Sponsor: BPER Bank. Media partner: ArtsLife. More information can be found at www.modenantiquaria.it.

Among the highlights the public will find at the fair: a Cleopatra by Onorio Marinari, presented by Arcuti Fine Art; a 15th-century Madonna and Child by Gregorio di Lorenzo, presented by B & Facchini Antique Galleries; a Birth of the Virgin by Pietro della Vecchia, presented by Bertogalli; two works by Francesco Hayez, a drawing and an oil on canvas, presented by Carlo Virgilio Gallery; a Joshua by Carlo Bononi presented by Robilant+Voena; a Magdalene (by Guido Reni) by Mariano de Vecchio, presented by Le Due Torri Gallery; a series of 17th-century carpets from Anatolia presented by Mirco Cattai Gallery; a portrait of Lady Nanne Schrader by Giovanni Boldini, presented by Bottegantica; a head study by Annibale Carracci, presented by Lampronti Gallery; a San Giovannino by Elisabetta Sirani, presented by Galleria d’Arte del Caminetto; a Madonna with Saints by Giambattista Pittoni, presented by Antichità La Pieve; and a Saint Michael defeating the dragon by Giuseppe Sammartino, presented by Longari Arte.

Modena, kicking off the 32nd edition of Modenantiquaria. Here are some of the proposals

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