Milan-based antique carpet dealer David Sorgato curated the exhibition ‘Zeki Müren’s Inspiration’ at the Sartirana Textile Show, 13-16 September 2018, followed by a selling exhibition at his gallery that closed in January 2019. HALI Assistant Editor Rachel Meek reviews David Sorgato’s Milan exhibition in HALI 198.
For the last few years, the largest number of firms exhibiting carpets and tapestries at a fair in Italy has been the annual exhibition held at Sartirana. Half a century ago, things were very different. The most important art and antiques fair in the world, bringing together many carpet galleries, was the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence.
Strip woven cloths from Ghana & Togo; Armenian Church chintz hangings; rural & nomadic Moroccan textiles; how Islamic art came to Berlin & more in HALI 186
Frontlines News: SCATA Leipzig and Hoff meister/Tsareva Turkmen questions arising; Classical carpets in Paris sale; LARTA; Parcours Paris; Navajo First Phase blanket smashes all auction records; Material Culture enters the auction fray Profile: Conceptual Art advocate, bibliophile and textile collector Seth Siegelaub Benchmarks: Setting standards for Turkmen embroidered bokches and Shekarlu rugs Forum:… Read more »
Frontlines Letters: The travails of an embargoed Baluch, putting a fragment in its place News: The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney receives 127 Yomut weavings; Caskey-Lees and Bonhams cut back on current activity; James Mellaart and Nunzio Crisa remembered; CDA 2013 Profile: Monique Levi-Strauss, doyenne of ‘Cachemire’, talks to Judy Wentworth to mark the publication of the definitive… Read more »