Until very recently, it was common for major private art collectors to keep apartments exclusively to store or display their collections. Beyond the potentially inadequate storage conditions, keeping a collection without the constant presence of people poses serious risks that accidents not identified right away end up causing losses of major proportions: think of what can happen with a short circuit in an uninhabited apartment.
What Expomus and KNW Brokers say on the Tá Seguro podcast
The general director of Expomus, Maria Ignez Mantovani Franco, spoke about this subject on the podcast Tá Seguro, from the InfoMoney channel, together with the CEO of KNW Brokers, Marcio Ribeiro. Throughout the episode, they talk about insurance for works of art and the transport of major exhibitions, drawing on Expomus's international experience, having staged shows with works by Aleijadinho, Portinari, Picasso, Paul Klee and other renowned national and international artists.
"There are risks people do not measure," said Maria Ignez about the safekeeping of collections. "Today we have a private art storage facility with all the rigor one would expect of a museum storeroom. It is a new way of handling the matter more professionally. Little by little, these apartments are disappearing," she explains. She is referring to Clé Chenue do Brasil, in which Expomus is a shareholder together with the French company Chenue, the international leader in fine art logistics.
"With this, we are gradually qualifying the stay, which is the insurance covering works of art while at rest, both for private collectors and for museums. It is the broad development of a security awareness that qualifies the insurance," she added.
Companies and banks use art storage too
Marcio Ribeiro adds that many institutions that hold art collections, banks and companies, for example, can benefit from private art storage facilities when they need to move their works. "A collector who makes frequent acquisitions, or an institution that wants to change the layout of the boardroom, is not going to leave the works in the basement. So they place the collection in an art storage facility and the insurance covers all that movement," he said.
From a single piece to an exclusive room
Clé Chenue do Brasil is the only private Brazilian art storage facility with international standards of climate control, security and fire prevention, so much so that its clients include some of the most important Brazilian museums. All this structure and expertise is available in a variety of service formats: it is possible to store anything from a single piece, in a shared space, to reserving an entire room for the collector's exclusive use.
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The full episode is available on Spotify or on video on the Tá Seguro YouTube channel. You can watch the excerpt highlighted in this post here:
