VERNON SILVER
28th June 2018
Despite the fact that suspected Italian antiquities smuggler Giacomo Medici was acquitted by Italian authorities in 2011, and the objects in his photographic archive were subsequently cleared by the Carabinieri, anti-art trade vigilante, Christos Tsirogiannis, declares these objects, "sacred things," that must be confiscated from their owners. All while Italian auction houses have increasingly been given the go ahead to legally sell and export similar material.