Anchorage ART

Who we are

Art Historian

Mariastella Margozzi

Mariastella lives in Rome and holds an Art History degree with a specialisation in modern and contemporary art from La Sapienza University of Rome.
From 1988 to 2016, she was an executive officer at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and director of the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum of Decorative Arts (Italian Ministry of Culture). From November 2017 to September 2023, she was the manager of the Italian Ministry of Culture. During this time, she not only directed many important museums in Italy, such as Castel Sant’Angelo and the Pantheon in Rome, Castel del Monte and Castello Svevo di Bari, but also organised and curated national and international exhibitions, notably: 100 Works of Italian Art, 100 Masterpieces for Japan (Tokyo, 2001), Notes at the stadium: 90 Works on the Theme of Football in Twentieth-century Italian Art (South Korea, Turkey, South America, 2002) and Klee e l’Italia (Roma, 2012), Il Mondo Di Giorgio De Chirico. Sogno o Realtà (Barcellona, Madrid 2017), La Bilancia E La Spada. Storie di Giustizia a Castel Sant’Angelo (Roma, 2023).
Mariastella is a widely recognised expert in 19th– and 20th-century art. Over the years, she published numerous works on artists and art-related topics, some of the most significant being on Mario Sironi, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Italian Art in the 30’s, Colonial Italian Art in Africa, and Futurism. Furthermore, she is a court-appointed technical consultant for numerous Italian courts (Rome, Milan, Florence, etc.), assessing the authenticity of artworks from various periods in which she is an expert.

Consultant & Curator

Gabriel Contreras

Gabriel Contreras, born in Mexico City, is a visual arts curator and consultant with a unique focus on the intersection of technology, blockchain, and the relationship between economics and art. Having spent significant time in Europe, he has deepened his knowledge of art history and various artistic disciplines. Gabriel is skilled in problem-solving, conducting high-level inquiries, and fostering connections across a wide range of industries. He has collaborated with private collectors and galleries in Europe and Central America to discover rare and exceptional art pieces, demonstrating his expertise in the art world.

Art Historian, Numismatist, Curator

Claudio Metzger

Claudio Metzger was born in Flawil, SG, Switzerland, on 8 June 1955. He passed his Federal Matura at Collegio Papio in Ascona in 1975 and studied Phil. I, History and Political Science at Zurich University (1979), followed by Curator Classic Numismatics studies at the Centro Numismatico Ascona from 1979 to 1992. After that, studies and research were conducted in ancient and contemporary art, from Iraq to China, from 1985 to 2006. He consulted for the Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna of Ascona, the Ascona CdA Tourism office, the Culture Commission, the Ascona Museum Commission, the Ascona Public Library Board, etc., in 1990. In 1991, Metzger founded the Aion Group in Ascona, which was followed by collaborations with Philip Berman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art between 1995 and 1998. 2003 saw the opening of the Aion Cultural Exhibition Centre with its proprietary art vault in Ascona. Claudio curated exhibitions at Aion Ascona from 2003 to 2012 while also lecturing on the International Art Market at IULM Milan. Metzger curated and published in Switzerland, Italy, and China. He became an executive at the Eranos Foundation in 2005 – now a member of the Board of Trustees, co-responsible for exhibitions of sacred art at the Church of San Carlo Borromeo Lugano, member of the Caponnetto Foundation, and contact person for Switzerland. Metzger remains the curator of several private collections and is responsible for the management, study, analysis, restoration, publication, and exhibitions. He spoke at the International Online Conference “1951 to 2021” organised by Sira von Waldner. One of his favourite topics is the enigma of Caravaggio; New comparative studies from 12 to 28 January 2022, Claudio Metzger, “A lu scguisii ul Caravaggio”, Artists from the Lombardy Lake Region at the time of Caravaggio – Wednesday 26 January 10 am-1 pm (www.caravaggio.info) published in the Seminar Proceedings: “A lu scguisii ul Caravaggio – Claudio Metzger, pag. 237” by Etgraphiae – Foligno -PG.

Art Advisor

Vincenzo Denaro

Vincenzo was born in Italy and has been living in Barcelona, Spain, for the past xxx years. His career began with a BA in Administration and Commercial Business from ENAIP in Palermo. He then completed his Master’s in Curatorship of Art and Exhibitions at the Futuro Association in Rome.
Since 1996, his career has taken him from assisting in organising the seventh-century Venetian architect Giovan Battista Piranesi’s solo exhibition in Rome to researching artworks from private collections for museums and galleries in Spain and Italy. He has also collaborated on loaning works between museums for the Fondazione Sorrento’s exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s works at Villa Fiorentino. Vincenzo spent over 20 years researching and acquiring works for clients from the Roman School (1918–1944), the Futurist Movement (1909–1926), and Spanish painters of the twentieth century. He has organised solo exhibitions in both Italy and Spain, and now dedicates his time to researching and acquiring paintings, drawings, and sculptures by artists such as Picasso, Dalí, and Miró for private collectors, mainly in Italy and Spain.

Head of PR & Communication

Yantra Pucciano

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Yantra spent her childhood predominantly in Switzerland, where she attended Aiglon College and studied Hotel Management at the Centre International de Glion. After working in Spain for a few years, she moved to New York, where she was offered a job at ArtNet, a move she delightedly made that marked the beginning of her love for art. Yantra subsequently did an art history course at Sotheby’s in London, studied Interior Design at the Inchbald School of Design in London, worked as an Editor of a magazine and is now delighted to go full circle back to be involved in the art world.