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18/6/2004

Monument to Now

Deste Foundation, Athens

An official part of "ATHENS 2004, Culture", Olympic Games Cultural Program.

Curated by: Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector

Monument to Now, an exhibition of current trends in contemporary art will showcase the works of the most influential international artists of the past decade and will attempt to articulate the most important recent artistic innovations. The works in the exhibition will be drawn from the Dakis Joannou Collection, one of the leading collections of new international art.

It has been a remarkably lively period in art since the Dakis Joannou Collection was last presented in the exhibition Everything That's Interesting Is New at The Factory in Athens in 1996. Art is now strongly engaged with contemporary life after many years of withdrawal into self-referential Conceptualism. The philosophic foundations of Conceptual Art still influence today's artistic approach, but artists are much more involved with humanistic issues and with popular culture. There is also a renewed interest in illusion, narrative, decoration and other artistic concerns that had been banished but doctrinaire Conceptualism. More than at any point in the past thirty years, art is again involved with a commentary on the human condition.

There is a growing dialogue between new art, fashion, music and design. There has been a renewed emphasis on creating strong, memorable images, which includes a revival of figurative painting and sculpture. There is also an increasingly sophisticated understanding about how art can use the mass media to expand its impact.

The Dakis Joannou Collection has been particularly active during the past several years and has added many major new works that reflect these trends. Alongside new acquisitions of important works by Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, and other artists to whom the Dakis Joannou Collection has been committed since the 1980s, the exhibition will emphasize leading artists who have emerged since the last major presentation of the collection in 1996.

Artists

Franz Ackermann
Amy Adler
Ghada Amer
Laurie Anderson
Janine Antoni
Kutlug Ataman
Matthew Barney
Vanessa Beecroft
Michael Bevilacqua
Ashley Bickerton
Cai Guo-Qiang
Maurizio Cattelan
Nigel Cooke
Verne Dawson
Rineke Dijkstra
John Dogg
Marcel Duchamp
Olafur Eliasson
Urs Fischer
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Anna Gaskell
Gilbert & George
Robert Gober
Douglas Gordon
Johan Grimonprez
Peter Halley
Damien Hirst
Brad Kahlhamer
Kurt Kauper
Mike Kelley
William Kentridge
Martin Kippenberger
Jeff Koons
George Lappas
Liza Lou
Paul McCarthy
Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen
Mariko Mori
Takashi Murakami
Nikos Navridis
Shirin Neshat
Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Cady Noland
Chris Ofili Gabriel Orozco
Charles Ray
Pipilotti Rist
Matthew Ritchie
Tom Sachs
Gregor Schneider
Andreas Slominski
Haim Steinbach
Lina Theodorou
Wolfgang Tillmans
Fred Tomaselli
Kara Walker
Nari Ward
Andy Warhol
Gillian Wearing
Christopher Wool
Chen Zhen
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Special Projects

Jeremy Deller
Acid Brass project
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Acid Brass came about through a frenzied conversation in a pub one hot summer's night. The idea was simply for a brass band to play Acid House anthems. As The History of the World diagram (map) attempts to illustrate, the two musical forms have much in common, with obvious traces to folk music and political activism in each case. The UK's number one brass band, the Williams Fairey Stockport, were the first to perform the material in Liverpool (with Tony Wilson as Master of Ceremonies). Their arranger, Rodney Newton, did all the work transposing the scores.*

The performance will be recreated with the brass band of the Municipality of Athens, of one hundred and twenty members for the occasion of the Monument to Now preview.

* Taken from: Jeremy Deller, Life to Blame for Everything. Collected work & projects 1992-99, p.53
Art : Concept, Paris
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Visitors Program
18 – 21 JUNE 2004

Friday 18
Evening 8:00pm (by invitation only)
Private Viewing at the exhibition site in Nea Ionia, followed by a cocktail reception on the roof.

Saturday 19
Free morning to enjoy Athens.
Please consult the appropriate pages of our site.
Evening 9:30pm (by invitation only)
Buffet dinner reception to be confirmed

Sunday 20
12:00pm - 2:00pm (by invitation only)
Panel discussion. Site to be announced.
Evening 10:30pm (by invitation only)
Night out in Athenian trendy club by the sea.

Monday 21
Afternoon 12:30pm
Press Conference in Nea Ionia exhibition site.
Evening 9:00pm (by invitation only)
Opening in Nea Ionia exhibition site, followed by a late party nearby.

Shuttle service from hotels to be announced.
We will be updating you regularly with more details and contact information on different locations.
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Dates and opening hours

DESTE - Nea Ionia
Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00am to 21:00pm
Monday and Sunday closed

Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
Monday - Friday, 10:00am - 16:00pm
Saturday, 12:00am - 16pm
Sunday closed

During the Olympic Games, 13 - 29 August & 14 - 28 September 2004, the opening hours of the exhibition in DESTE - Nea Ionia will be the following:

Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 20:00
Monday, 12:00 to 20:00
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VENUES

Nea Ionia Exhibition Space
E.Pappa & Filellinon Street
142, 43, N. Ionia
Athens , Greece

DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
8 Omirou Street
Neo Psychico, 154 51,
Athens, Greece

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