Sgarbi replies to the accusations: “Fake De Dominicis paintings? Total invention”

The art critic Vittorio Sgarbi replies to the accusations made by the prosecutors of Rome who accuse him of having authenticated at least 32 paintings by Gino De Dominicis that he knew were false and of being part of a criminal association that would create fake De Dominicis paintings for then authenticate them. Accusations that Sgarbi sends back to the sender judging them to be the result of an “absurd action” which could, however, cost him an indictment since tomorrow the preliminary hearing is set in which it will be decided whether Sgarbi will go to trial on the accusation of criminal association. Speaking with AdnKronos, the critic affirms that the investigation “is a total invention. My precise position is that they are masterpieces by De Dominicis and I authenticate them as I please. The argument does not exist, it is an action entirely absurd of magistrates who among other things I also disavowed by the CSM because the investigation was made in a grotesque way on an author who died in 1998, whose works are therefore less than 50 years old. There is no problem, no one would falsify “. The investigation, according to Sgarbi, would be based on “a pure invention of a character, the lawyer Tomassoni in love with De Dominicis, who declared the works bought by the great entrepreneur Koelliker to be false but they are all good, my reports are all perfect. . The argument does not exist. The collector who bought them is extraordinary, there are not even one fakes. In any case, I have made expert reports for works that I believe to be true “. Sgarbi argues, then, that De Dominicis is “a conceptual artist and conceptual works are not made by hand but with the mind. De Dominicis brought the Mongoloid to the Venice Biennale, so he is an artist who has nothing to dealing with the material production of the works. The lawyer will take care of everything, there will be no indictment because the works are all good and the assumption is completely false. The only thing that is false is the assumption of this investigation “, concludes Sgarbi.