Skin+Fruit

Curated by Jeff Koons
New Museum //**3/3/10 - 6/6/10**// 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002 212.219.1222

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection” is the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This is also the first exhibition curated by artist Jeff Koons, who was invited to organize the show by the New Museum and whose work inspired Joannou to start his collection in 1985.

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.

(note - in most cases the link for the artist's name takes you to the Google Images page for that artist; the link for "Lives and works" takes you to either that artist's Wikipedia page or a comparable bio page)
 * Selected Artists (50)**

Paweł Althamer Born 1967 in Warsaw, Poland Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland

David Altmejd Born 1974 in Montreal, Canada Lives and works in London, United Kingdom, and Montreal, Canada

Janine Antoni Born 1964 in Freeport, Bahamas Lives and works in New York, NY

assume vivid astro focus Born sometime between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in various parts of the world Nomads

Tauba Auerbach Born 1981 in San Francisco, CA Lives and works in New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA

Matthew Barney Born 1967 in San Francisco, CA [|Lives and works in New York, NY] -
 * The Cremaster Cycle

Vanessa Beecroft Born 1969 in Genoa, Italy Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
 * Artist's website

Ashley Bickerton Born 1959 in Barbados, West Indies Lives in Kuta Bali, Indonesia

John Bock Born 1965 in Gribbohm, Germany Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
 * The Big Sleep
 * Lecture / Fashion Show The greased bendsteering in the luggage gets tangled up with the white shirt at HKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Mark Bradford Born 1961 in Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
 * Art21

Maurizio Cattelan Born 1960 in Padua, Italy Lives and works in New York, NY, and Milan, Italy -
 * Marian Goodman Gallery
 * La Nona Ora

Paul Chan Born 1973 in Hong Kong, China Lives and works in New York, NY

Dan Colen Born 1979 in Leonia, NJ Lives and works in New York, NY

Nigel Cooke Born 1973 in Manchester, United Kingdom [|Lives and works in London, United Kingdom]

Roberto Cuoghi Born 1973 in Modena, Italy [|Lives and works in Milan, Italy]

Nathalie Djurberg Born 1978 in Lysekil, Sweden Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Haris Epaminonda Born 1980 in Nicosia, Cyprus Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Urs Fischer Born 1973 in Zurich, Switzerland Lives and works in New York, NY

Robert Gober Born 1954 in Wallingford, Connecticut Lives and works in New York, NY

Matt Greene Born 1972 in Atlanta, GA Lives and works in New York, NY

Mark Grotjahn Born 1968 in Pasadena, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Adam Helms Born 1974 in Tucson, AZ Lives and works in New York, NY

Jenny Holzer Born 1950 in Gallipolis, OH [|Lives and works in Hoosick, NY]

Elliott Hundley Born 1975 in Greensboro, North Carolina Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Mike Kelley Born 1954 in Detroit, MI [|Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA]

Terence Koh Born 1977 in Beijing, China Lives and works in New York, NY

Jeff Koons Born 1955 in York, Pennsylvania [|Lives and works in New York, NY]

Liza Lou Born 1969 in New York, NY Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Nate Lowman Born 1979 in Las Vegas, NV Lives and works in New York, NY

Mark Manders Born 1968 in Volkel, the Netherlands Lives and works in Arnhem, the Netherlands

Paul McCarthy Born 1945 in Salt Lake City, UT Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Dave Muller Born 1965 in San Francisco, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Takashi Murakami Born 1963 in Tokyo, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan and Long Island City, NY

Tim Noble and Sue Webster Tim Noble: Born 1966 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Sue Webster: Born 1967 in Leicester, United Kingdom Live and work together in Shoreditch, East London, United Kingdom

Cady Noland Born 1956 in Washington, D.C. Lives and works in New York, NY

Chris Ofili Born 1968 Manchester, United Kingdom Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Seth Price Born 1973 in East Jerusalem, Israel Lives and works in New York, NY

Richard Prince Born 1949 in Panama Canal Zone, Panama Lives and works in Rensselaerville, NY

Charles Ray Born 1953 in Chicago, IL Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Tino Sehgal Born 1976 in London, United Kingdom Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

[|Jim Shaw] Born 1952 in Midland, MI [|Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA]

Cindy Sherman Born 1954 in Glen Ridge, NJ Lives and works in New York, NY

Kiki Smith Born 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany Lives and works in New York, NY

Christiana Soulou Born 1961 in Athens, Greece Lives and works in Athens, Greece

Jannis Varelas Born 1977 in Athens, Greece Lives and works in Athens, Greece, and Vienna, Austria

Kara Walker Born 1969 in Stockton, CA Lives and works in New York, NY

Gillian Wearing Born 1963 in Birmingham, United Kingdom Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Andro Wekua Born 1977 in Sochumi, Georgia Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland

Franz West Born 1947 in Vienna, Austria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Christopher Wool Born 1955 in Chicago, IL Lives and works in New York, NY