Fabrizio Moretti opens a new art gallery in London

Moretti Fine Art, a gallery specializing in ‘Old Master’ paintings and sculptures founded by Fabrizio Moretti, is preparing to inaugurate on July 1st a new office in London, in the St. James’s district. Located at 12-13 Duke Street, the new gallery is spread over two adjacent historic buildings and three floors for a total of approximately 800 square meters of gallery and offices. The inaugural exhibition will reflect the specialization in Italian painting and sculpture from the 14th to the 17th century for which the gallery is famous throughout the world and will feature works by Sano Di Pietro, Giovanni Baronzio, Nicolo dell’Abate and Canaletto. The two historic buildings on Duke Street date back to 1674 and have been home to art dealers since 1910. The renovation project involved a complex and almost total demolition of the interiors and consequently a huge work of construction of a single large space that would harmonize the two buildings, of which the front facade and part of the rear wall have been preserved. Connected by two main staircases at each end of the building and a central elevator, the ground and first floors are designed as exhibition spaces while the second floor houses offices and meeting rooms for the gallery.The end result is a unique combination of typical exteriors of the London architectural tradition with elegant and contemporary interiors, specially designed for an art gallery that welcomes curators, collectors and directors of international museums. The sober style and a museum quality environment make it ideal for setting up and enjoying the works. “This gallery is exactly how I wanted it, for almost three years I have followed all aspects of it from the initial project to the small details, always having in mind to enhance the works. I did not just want a beautiful and elegant place”, explains Fabrizio Moretti Visitors enter a double-height space that visually connects the first floor exhibition space to the entrance below, while at the rear of the building a similar double-height space pushes natural light from the ground floor galleries to the library and hall. archive of the basement.The entire project, signed by the architecture and interior design studio Tomèf of London, highlights the very generous height and width of the walls that allow you to hang and set up large works of art, as well as create different atmospheres, even the use of velvet or silk wall coverings to enrich the paintings of the old masters and natural oak floors in sp ina of fish, which can in turn be embellished with refined antique carpets.Moretti Fine Art will also open as a virtual gallery in the Metaverse in the near future thanks to a partnership with Virtual Pangea, a blockchain company that is developing a multilayer metaverse ecosystem. By entering this digital world, Moretti Fine Art clients will have the opportunity to experience a new type of exhibition, interact in virtual spaces and finally purchase Nft of Moretti Fine Art’s masterpieces. Moretti Fine Art The Moretti Gallery was founded in 1999 by Fabrizio Moretti in the heart of Florence, between Palazzo Strozzi and Santa Maria Novella with the inaugural exhibition From Bernardo Daddi to Giorgio Vasari and immediately distinguished himself for his specialization in Italian ancient paintings. Since then, internationally renowned art historians have collaborated on numerous projects curated by the gallery. Over the years, Moretti Fine Art has sold numerous works to the most important museums including the Uffizi Galleries, the Accademia Gallery, the San Marco Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Louvre, Louvre Abu Dhabi and the National Gallery in London. . Moretti Fine Art opened in London in 2005 and soon became a reference point for collectors looking for a confidential and discreet approach. In December 2011 the gallery moved to St James’s, in the heart of the international art market, a space closed in 2019 to focus on the construction project of its new large gallery in Duke St. The gallery has exhibited regularly at Tefaf Maastricht, in Frieze Masters in London and at the Florence International Antiques Biennial. The collaboration with Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts led to several co-curated exhibitions in New York, including Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture and A Rediscovered Masterpiece by Antonio Corradini. of some important monographs by Italian painters, including Spinello Aretino, Carlo Dolci, Bartolomeo della Gatta, Angelo Caroselli, Johannes Hispanus and Simone dei Crocifissi. Moretti Fine Art has also funded scholarships at various institutions and sponsored the restoration of paintings including Pontormo’s La Visitazione. Moretti Fine Art is a member of the Italian Antiques Association, the Italian Federation of Art Merchants, the Florentine Antiques Association, The Society of London Art Dealers and The British Antiques Dealers Association.Fabrizio Moretti Born in Prato in 1976, Fabrizio Moretti graduated in Letters to the University of Florence where in 1999, at the age of 22, he opened the Moretti Gallery. In addition to the galleries in Florence and London, in 2017 Moretti opened an exhibition space at the Park Palace in the Principality of Monaco.Moretti was a member of the Executive Committee of Tefaf and Frieze Masters. Since 2014 he has been Secretary General of the International Biennial of Antiques in Florence on the occasion of which, in 2015, he invited Jeff Koons to temporarily install some of his works in Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio. In 2016 he became a member of the Paintings Council of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In 2017, again in the context of Biaf, Urs Fischer created a sculpture entitled Marsupiale depicting Fabrizio Moretti installed in Piazza della Signoria in Florence. In 2019 Moretti was appointed member of the Scientific Committee of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and the Nouveau Musée of Monaco dedicated an exhibition to him entitled Step by step. Visions of an art dealer collection that testify to Moretti’s passion for modern and contemporary art and for the old masters. The exhibition included several great artists such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alighiero Boetti, Guido Cagnacci, Jacopo Carucci known as Pontormo, George Condo, Thierry De Cordier, Pedro de Mena y Medrano, Andrea and Giovanni della Robbia, Lucio Fontana, Wade Guyton, Martin Kippenberger , Jannis Kounellis, Jan Lievens, Glenn Ligon, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Guido Reni, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville and Bartolomeo Vivarini.His numerous awards include the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Art et des Lettres conferred by the Minister of French culture in 2004 and the Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Culturel awarded by the Princess of Hanover in 2019. In 2015 she received The Keys of the City of Florence from the mayor Dario Nardella. Moretti has donated several works to international museums such as the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum. A project that is particularly close to Moretti’s heart is the Fabrizio Moretti Foundation, a charity dedicated to supporting disabled people. The first project, now in its final stages, is the construction of a center dedicated to children and the effects of hippotherapy in his hometown, Prato, in Italy.