Antonio Arch

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Grange Narrative Guide at Art Gallery of Ontario
Caribbean and Canadian Liaison at Association for Research into Crimes Against Art
Creative Director at ARCH & COMPANY FINE ARTS

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Antonio Arch’s Summary

Antonio Arch is an Art Consultant based in Toronto and Grand Cayman. His specialty is in lifting morale for private and institutional clients by building purposeful collections and meaningful installations of Fine Art in their workplace public spaces.

He is an active member of the Toronto Board of Trade and the Canadian Liaison of ARCA: the Association for Research into Crimes against Art.

Arch & Company is a proud supporter of the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands and the Art Gallery of Ontario for 2009.

Antonio Arch’s Experience

Grange Narrative Guide

Art Gallery of Ontario

(Non-Profit; Museums and Institutions industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

Ongoing excavation of concealed artifacts in the foundations of Toronto's oldest brick home (1817). The Grange, a National Historic Site of Canada, is now home to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). It was originally the family home of D'Arcy Boulton and Sarah Anne (née Robinson) and later his son William Henry and Harriette (née Dixon).

When some of the papers of the former butler Henry Whyte (1793-1880) were donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in June 2007, it was determined that this legacy contained crude, hand-drawn map sketches of the house and the surroundings. They show a number of small crosses, dated over several decades. ASO was retained to identify and investigate those sites that had not been obliterated by recent construction. Careful exposure of spaces beneath floorboards, behind wall mouldings and under the brick floor indeed turned up artifacts. From some oblique notes among Whyte's papers, ASO scientist Dr. Chantal Lee was able to reconstruct that the likely creator of these artifacts was "the seventeen year old Irish spinster Mary [who] was taken on probation [in 1828] as third maid" (IV/44.7). Whyte observed her conceal a small object under a stable floorboard, which he inspected and determined to be a "waxen globule" (V/12.14). She appears to have continued her practice of encasing small objects in beeswax and concealing them, which Whyte observed over decades; evocatively, he named her Amber (VI/3.17).
Caribbean and Canadian Liaison

Association for Research into Crimes Against Art

(Security and Investigations industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) advises law enforcement, governments, museums, places of worship and other institutions on art protection and recovery. ARCA also studies contemporary issues in art crime, maintains a database of case histories and a library of supporting material.
Creative Director

ARCH & COMPANY FINE ARTS

(Design industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Arch & Company Fine Arts is a leading source for curatorial services to the corporate and private collector. We create innovative art programs that inspire creativity and innovation for clients who depend upon us to build and manage collections, discover new artists and report art market trends as they happen.