TEFAF Maastricht

We are pleased to announce our participation in this year’s edition of TEFAF Maastricht, with a presentation of sculptures by Alessandro Twombly and paintings by Francesco Cima.

Find us in the showcase section at our booth, SC07.

You can find more practical information here.

Alessandro Twombly (b. 1959, Rome) graduated from LSE in London before studying at the New York Studio School. He is an Italian-born painter and sculptor, whose exuberant paintings and textured sculptures reflect his intimate connection to his local surroundings, the countryside outside Rome where he lives and works.
Twombly is deeply familiar with the flora and fauna of the Italian countryside and understands the longer geological perspective which shaped the landscape. Describing this relationship, he says ‘I work with nature like another artist might focus on the nude,’ explaining that he uses nature as a point of departure to move beyond direct representation. Nature is shifted into a psychological abstraction, seemingly reflecting a state of mind through exuberant colours and bold brushstrokes which battle and blend on the canvas. This dynamism is the result of an energetic and varied method of painting; Twombly often rests the canvas on the floor and uses his bare hands to apply his broad and expressive brushstrokes. Twombly is a natural and skilled colourist, combining vibrant colours and layering them with precision, tone after tone to obtain varying nuances. In places, this direct application doesn’t allow the colours to mix and they sit next to each other in contrast, independent yet blended by the composition.

Francesco Cima (b. 1990, Pietrasanta) graduated in visual arts at Academy of fine arts in Venice in 2019. He currently lives and works in Venice. Since 2015, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
The attention to detail, as well as the instinctive ability to connect seemingly distant physical and temporal spaces are some of the peculiarities that characterize Francesco Cima’s paintings. After relentless experimentation, landscape has become his favoured genre. In Cima’s landscapes the human figure rarely appears, offering greater space to other living species, or alternatively to treasured objects of his imagination. Through thinly painted brushstrokes, Cima does not simply render views, but vast territories where infinitely many dimensions can find refuge, pushing the material confines of the oil painting beyond the imaginable. Although the topographical richness of Versilia (north-western Tuscany) remains one of the main sources of inspiration for the artist, a territory rich with sea, hills and mountains, there is no lack of vast deserts, Venice cityscapes and other mysterious lands in his paintings. The main file rouge in his works, is the presence of a crepuscular light that softly embraces the majority of his settings, echoing the emotional reverberations of Romanticism, to which Cima feels strongly indebted to.