Not to be missed!
Skin Fruit, curated by Jeff Koons, is an exhibit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring selected works from prominent art collector Dakis Joannou’s personal collection–open now until 6 June 2010.
“Including over 100 works by fifty international artists spanning several generations, the exhibition explores the age-old preoccupation with the human body as a vessel and vehicle for experience, a distinctive focus of the collection. Koons’s title “Skin Fruit” alludes to notions of genesis, evolution, original sin, and sexuality. “Skin” and “fruit” evoke the tensions between interior and exterior, between what we see and what we consume. In the exhibition role-playing games and dramas occur: a man will stage a religious ritual; a sculpture literally sings out; white-chocolate monuments tower above visitor’s heads; voracious creatures eat themselves and each other while bodies are buried or frozen.”
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection curated by Jeff Koons
New Museum. 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, United States. Tel: +1 212 219 1222
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection curated by Jeff Koons
New Museum. 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, United States. Tel: +1 212 219 1222
[via Hypebeast]
