iDESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art (Athens)Nea Ionia
Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten Generation
Group show of 49 artists born 1960 to 1980 from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Massimiliano Gioni with the New Museum.
Més a Atenes
You walk in on a couple kissing, filmed in one slow pan: Douglas Gordon's Monument for X (1998). Nearby, David Shrigley's black octagonal sign announces Tomorrow is Cancelled, and an office worker in a Gillian Wearing photograph holds up a card that says "I'm desperate."
Everything comes from Dakis Joannou's collection: 49 artists born between 1960 and 1980, chosen by Massimiliano Gioni of New York's New Museum. Instead of describing the works, the wall texts quote Gen X books, films and songs, from Richard Linklater's Slacker to Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel. For a generation billed as forgotten, the list includes Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson and Chris Ofili.
ArtReview's Stephanie Bailey found some works "sharply contemporary" but said the show at times feels like a "greatest hits" of past DESTE exhibitions, and that its argument "unravels" over the contradictions it leaves out. It is open Tuesday to Thursday, 12:00 to 20:00, in a former sock factory in Nea Ionia, and closes on 26 November.
Recomanació de la redacció
You walk in on Douglas Gordon's slow pan around a kissing couple, near David Shrigley's sign Tomorrow is Cancelled. ArtReview found some works "sharply contemporary" and the show at times a "greatest hits" of past DESTE exhibitions.
No et perdis
Monument for X
Douglas Gordon's 1998 video opens the show with a slow camera pan around a couple kissing.
Tomorrow is Cancelled
David Shrigley's black octagonal sign, with the title crudely scrawled across it.
The "I'm desperate" photograph
From Gillian Wearing's Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say series (1992 to 93): an office worker holding up a sign reading "I'm desperate."
Cheryl Donegan's HEAD
A 1993 video in which the artist drinks milk spurting from a green bottle.
Andra Ursuța's pink marble statue
Commerce Exterieur Mondial Sentimental (2017) is carved from a 2011 photograph of a Roma woman waiting to be deported from France.
Ideal per a
- En solitari
- Friquis
Millor evitar-ho si
You want art beyond the West: ArtReview found the show's frame of reference mostly Western.
Ara a prop
Crèdits de les imatges
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- Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten GenerationCourtesy of DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art (Athens)
- Vlasis Frissiras – Double Portrait: The Collector, the PainterCourtesy of Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre (Foundation of the Hellenic World)
- Eugenia Vereli, Cycladic Café Art ProjectPhoto: Yannis Kouskoutis, © Museum of Cycladic Art
- Grand TourCourtesy of Benaki Museum of Greek Culture