At TEFAF Maastricht arguably the world’s most intellectually ambitious art fair time operates differently. Works from across millennia share the same corridors: antiquities converse with Old Masters, and contemporary art finds itself in dialogue with the distant past. For its first participation in the fair’s prestigious Showcase section, Devals Gallery has embraced this temporal breadth with an exhibition that turns toward one of the most primordial materials in the history of art: stone.
Titled “Sources Minérales”, the presentation brings together seminal works by five artists Victor Vasarely, Michael Heizer, Alan Sonfist, Nobuo Sekine, and Andy Goldsworthy whose practices, though emerging from different continents and contexts, converge around the enduring fascination artists have long held for the mineral world. Through sculpture, drawing, and conceptual interventions, the booth traces how stone has served not only as a material but also as a conceptual anchor across the avant-gardes of the postwar era..
For Alexandre Devals, the gallery’s founder, the project emerged from a desire to connect the historical depth of TEFAF with the intellectual genealogy of postwar sculpture. “The fair represents more than 7,000 years of art history,” he explains. “I wanted to situate our program within that long timeline, and to reflect on the foundational material of sculpture itself.”
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