Jeffrey Deitch &
Massimiliano Gioni |
LIVE from the NYPL
Recorded on
March 25th,
2015 at the
New York Public Library
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On the occasion of the release of Jeffrey Deitch’s
Live the
Art, he and Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of
New York’s New Museum, will discuss the way art and its audiences have changed over the past fifteen years.
JEFFREY DEITCH has been involved with modern and contemporary art for more than forty years as an artist, writer, curator, dealer, and advisor. Deitch has been active as a critic and curator since the mid-1970s. Deitch’s first important curatorial project was Lives, a
1975 exhibition about artists who used their own lives as an art medium
. In the 1970s, Deitch served as
Assistant Director of the
John Weber Gallery in
New York and as
Curator of the De
Cordova Museum in
Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Best known for his vanguard commercial gallery,
Deitch Projects, Deitch produced more than two hundred and fifty projects by contemporary artists during the gallery’s existence from
1996 through
2010. There, he championed artists such as
Tauba Auerbach,
Vanessa Beecroft,
Barry McGee,
Yoko Ono, and
Kehinde Wiley. In 2014,
Rizzoli published Live the Art, a major monograph detailing the history of Deitch Projects, designed by
Stefan Sagmeister. Deitch co-authored a monograph on
Keith Haring, published by Rizzoli in 2008, and wrote the introduction to
Jean Michel Basquiat,
1981:
The Studio of the
Street, published by
Charta in
2007. From 2010 to
2013, Deitch served as
Director of the
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, where he organized major solo exhibitions of work by
Urs Fischer,
Weegee, and
Kenneth Anger and curated seminal group shows including
The Painting Factory: Abstraction After
Warhol and
Art in the Streets, which had the highest attendance in the museum’s history.
MASSIMILIANO GIONI is the
Artistic Director of the New Museum, New York, and the Artistic Director of the
Nicola Trussardi Foundation,
Milan. At the New Museum, Gioni has curated solo exhibitions of work by
Tacita Dean (
2012);
Carsten Höller (
2011–12);
Lynda Benglis (2011);
Gustav Metzger (2011);
Paul Chan (2008); and Urs Fischer (2008); in addition to group shows such as
NYC 1993:
Experimental Jet Set,
Trash and No
Star (2013);
Ghosts in the Machine (2012); Ostalgia (2011); the inaugural Triennial
Younger Than
Jesus (2009); and After
Nature (2008), which have become signature events of the Museum’s programming. In 2014, Gioni and the Museum’s curatorial team organized solo shows by
Paweł Althamer,
Roberto Cuoghi,
Camille Henrot, and
Ragnar Kjartansson, as well as the group exhibition
Here and Elsewhere, a vast survey of contemporary art from and about the
Arab world. In
October 2014, he curated the first
American retrospective of the work of
Chris Ofili. He has curated numerous international exhibitions and biennials including the 55th
Venice Biennale, which he directed in 2013; the 8th
Gwangju Biennial (2010); the 4th
Berlin Biennial, co-curated with
Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick (
2006); and Manifesta 5, co-curated with
Marta Kuzma (2004). He cofounded the
Wrong Gallery with Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick, with whom he has directed the independent art magazines The Wrong
Times and Charley. He is the commissioning editor of
2000 Words, a series of monographic books published by the
Deste Foundation, with which he has frequently collaborated.
- published: 04 May 2015
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