三月 03, 2026

Axel Vervoordt is pleased to participate in the 2026 edition of TEFAF Maastricht. Our presentation features artistic manifestations of symbolic language, the power of materials, and a sensitivity to emptiness, offering a glimpse of a shared, harmonious human existence.

Kazuo Shiraga's 1964 work Seiku (Sacred Dog) is an arresting example of the raw immediacy of the artist's radical approach to action painting, empowering the material in a highly dynamic way and arresting, commanding even, the spectator's attention.

An untitled work by Chiyu Uemae exemplifies the artist’s ability to transmute quotidian experience into transcendent abstraction. Its burning red hues and obsessive accumulation of points speak to both the physicality of labour and the ethereal nature of consciousness. Jef Verheyen’s Nul Part Ailleurs offers a much emptier, but similarly meditative ephemerality. The soft hues of yellow and blue recall the first light of spring, or fields of grain under a clear sky.

Antoni Tàpies’ Hieroglyphics No. LXXIV, painted 1958-1960, and Raimund Girke’s Horizontal geschichtet, both communicate through illegible yet clearly understood writings on an instinctive level.

An exquisite dining table by José Zanine Caldas, part of his oeuvre of “protest furniture” inspired by local craftsmanship and the natural resources of his surroundings, is also presented. The sculptured legs seem to grow directly from the ground in a twisted, circular motion, powerfully rooting and manifesting the piece’s material presence.

Works by William Turnbull, Ida Barbarigo, Peter Buggenhout, Bosco Sodi, and Michel Mouffe each convey a sense of possibilities beneath the veil, the energy of space, and the power of unexpected materials.

We look forward to welcoming you at Stand 416.

TEFAF Maastricht takes place at MECC, Forum 100, from Saturday, March 14, to Thursday, 19 March, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with preview days on Thursday, 12, and Friday, 13 March.