Francesca Kaufmann “I owe the decision to open my gallery to meeting Maggie Cardelùs. I had been thinking about it for months but couldn’t find a reason for opening a space in Italy after having lived so long abroad”. “I love Italy but it is a country which is so diffident towards contemporary art, unwelcoming due to its lack of structure, interest on the part of the media and openness towards the avant-garde”. “Meeting Maggie Cardelùs and seeing her work grow and take on an increasingly defined form made me want to do something for her and all the other talented artists living in Italy”. “My first big satisfaction as a gallery owner was that of being able to ‘export’ one of my artists: Maggie Cardelùs has in fact recently shown at the Deitch Projects gallery in New York her installation Circus, a beautiful piece of work and perhaps a small but important success for Italian art!”