Arte, Sgarbi: “Never had doubts about acquittal”

“I never had any doubts about the outcome of this legal matter, nor could I have any: the works were authentic, there was no doubt about it”. This was stated to Adnkronos Vittorio Sgarbi, commenting on the ‘no place to proceed’ established by the judge in the proceedings that saw him accused by the Rome Public Prosecutor of having authenticated false works of art attributed to the Ancona artist Gino De Dominicis, who died in 1998. “They began an investigation on the basis of the malice of this collector Tomassoni, who owns about eighty works by De Dominicis who spoke of works he had not seen – explains the art critic – and from there an investigation began that it made no sense. ” “The fundamental mistake – Sgarbi emphasizes – was that the investigators, once the investigation was opened, did not come to me and never questioned me: I would have said how things were, and the story would have been closed immediately. no: they went on stalking me, intercepting me, and I had to get to defend myself “. And on the outcome of the judicial affair, the art critic adds: “Fortunately, my memories have evidently struck an intelligent magistrate, therefore honor to the magistrate Angela Gerardi who understood how things were”. In his memoirs, Sgarbi had explained among other things: “The attribution of a work often changes over time”, Sgarbi affirmed in his brief filed in court. “This is how it works in the history of art. There are dozens of different opinions on the attribution of this or that masterpiece that remains debated”. And on the press articles that have reconstructed the story by reporting the news of the proceedings against him, Sgarbi is clear on a newspaper editor: “The most disappointing thing was that without interviewing me he published two articles against me, giving reason to the ‘accusation “, he concludes.