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British galleries at the

Florence fair

The Florence Exhibition/Fair of Contemporary contemporanea is to provide Italian galleries with Kenneth Martin, Tyzack, Milow and Kim Lim) ;
Art— Mostra Mercato d'arte contemporanea— a communal 'shop window'; this year more than Editions Alecto (a range of their prints) ; Robert
opens in the Palazzo Strozzi in the middle of this twenty Italian galleries have been invited by the Fraser (Clive Barker, Peter Blake, Nicholas
month. This is the third such dealers' fair to be organizing committee, whose general secretary is Monro, Colin Self, and prints by Hamilton and
held in Florence; previous fairs were staged in Guglielmo Amerighi, to show a selection of the Dine) ; Gimpel Fils (Alan Davie, Gwyther Irwin,
1963 and 1964, but the exhibition planned for 1966 works they handle. On each previous occasion, Robert Adams, Hubert Dalwood, Bernard Mea-
had to be abandoned because of the disastrous however, another national group of dealers has dows and others) ; Grosvenor (Paule Vezelay,
floods. been invited. In 1964 a number of German gal- Brian Wall and Prunella Clough); Hanover
There is no British equivalent for this fair, where leries participated; this year, ten British galleries (Paolozzi, Wragg and Michael Vaughan) ; Kas-
major galleries can demonstrate their range to col- are showing. From the Italian customs onwards min (Olitski, Noland, Stella, Avedisian, Hockney,
lectors and dealers from abroad, where information many of the expenses of foreign exhibitions, in- Denny and Howard Hodgkin) ; Piccadilly (Neil
and contacts can be freely exchanged and the cluding transport and catalogues, are borne by the Dallas Brown, Tindle, Simcock, Lewin Bassing-
price of all exhibits is clearly indicated. The most Florence committee. thwaight, and Michael Simpson) ; and Redfern
immediately comparable event is the 'Art Market' British galleries showing are Annely Juda Fine (Oxtoby, Sedgley, William Pye, Patrick Procktor,
held in Cologne. Art (exhibiting Schottlander and Georgiadis) ; Alan Reynolds, David Leverett, and Bryan
The primary intention of Mostra Mercato d'arte Axiom (a gallery group which includes Mary and Organ).

Among works shown at Florence: top left,
Eduardo Paolozzis' Amir-Amur 1967, sculpture in
two parts, chrome-painted steel, 72 in. high
(Hanover Gallery) ; top centre, Bernard
Schottlander's Brown 1967, maquette in steel,
cellulose finish, 28 x 18 x 18 in. (Annely Juda) ;
above, David Oxtoby's Touch of Soul, oil on
canvas (Redfern Gallery) ; far left, Brian Wall's
Blue Diamond 1968, steel painted dark blue,
48 x 108 x 110 in. (Grosvenor Gallery) ; and,
left, Objects and cutouts in a box, oil on canvas,
45 x 36 in. by David Tindle (Piccadilly Gallery).