#dakis joannou

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Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons, and Dakis Joannou at the opening of “Everything That’s Interesting Is New,” The Factory, National School of Fine Arts, Athens, 1996

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1968: Italian Radical Design

concept by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari and Dakis Joannou

with a preface by design curator and journalist Maria Cristina Didero

published by Deste Foundation and Toiletpaper , 2014, 120 pages

euro 85,00*sold

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1968: Radical Italian Design, the newest project from Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's Toilet Paper in collaboration with the Deste Foundation in Athens, offers an unorthodox, kaleidoscopic walk through the Dakis Joannou collection of Italian Radical Design furniture. Led by avant-garde design firms such as Archizoom, Superstudio, Global Tools and 9999, Radical Design was firmly opposed to the ethics, and indeed the very notion of, "good design" or taste. Toilet Paper's bold, mischievous interpretation of Joannou's collection results in delightful, high-contrast photographs that merge the seductive lines of Radical Design furniture and objects with the curves of the modern-day nymphs cavorting among them. Published as a board book, and named after a year that was pivotal for architecture and design (and, of course, the world at large), 1968 is a collection of dreams and nightmares, an inspiring, eye-popping compendium of colorful, ironic objects and bodies. At once charmingly retro and alarmingly surreal, 1968 includes drawings by one of the Radical Design movement's foremost architects, Alessandro Mendini.

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Fotos de Yiorgos Kaplanidis, via Forbes

Este tiene que ser uno de los mega diseños único-en-su-tipo, y al mismo tiempo, más extraño yate de lujo, que jamás se haya visto en las aguas.

El multimillonario Dakis Joannou, un industrial greco-chipriota y famoso coleccionista de obras de arte, le encargó al mundialmente reconocido artista estadounidense, Jeff Koons, el diseño, y al constructor italiano de yates Ivana Porfiri, de crear un exclusivo mega yate art-céntrico.

Fotos de Yiorgos Kaplanidis, via Forbes

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Como una galería de arte flotante y apropiadamente llamado “Guilty”, el mega yate mide 35 metros (115 pies) de largo, y se considera como el proyecto más grande del artista estadounidense hasta la fecha. El yate se inspiró en el camuflaje naval británico de la Primera Guerra Mundial, conocido como “Dazzle camouflage” or “Razzle Dazzle”.

El exterior de Guilty cuenta con audaces diseños geométricos que incluyen rombos amarillos, alternando con triángulos rosados y polígonos azules. El patrón fue concebido por Norman Wilkinson para confundir a los botes enemigos, y hacerlos calcular mal la distancia del buque mientras estuvieran apuntando.

Fotos de Yiorgos Kaplanidis, via Forbes

El multimillonario griego le dijo a la revista estadounidense Forbes, que los diseños de estribor y babor “tienen un dialogo con la idea de pirámides y la imagen de un oasis y espejismo.”

El interior está dominado por las superficies blancas con enormes ventanales para maximizar la luz natural hacia dentro, para mostrar la extensa colección de arte del Sr. Joannou (una de las mas finas colecciones de arte contemporáneo del mundo).

¿Qué piensa de esta galería de arte flotante?, Déjanos saber a través de un comentario.

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Guilty, un ultra exclusivo mega yate creación del artista Jeff Koons en colaboración con Ivana Porfiri

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Patron Saint

Dakis Joannou believes supporting the arts is about much more than simply buying work. 

By Bettina Korek 

Patronage, which ideally means supporting creative energies, takes many forms. The myriad of opportunities range from institutional, like joining museum boards or chairing a gala, to the more democratic, such as online platforms like Kickstarter. For Dakis Joannou, founder of the Greecebased Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, patronage takes on a whole new scope. “Whether it involves collecting, contributing to exhibitions, or simply organizing gatherings, patronage is a question of relationships, of building up networks of friendships through which you contribute to culture,” he says. “By that I mean something different from patronage in the traditional sense of the word.” Like Deste’s exhibition program, driven entirely by Joannou, the foundation’s publications are known for their idiosyncrasy and by projects that are not bound by traditional constraints, like 1968, a book of his Italian Radical period design furniture collection shot by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari in the style of Toilet Paper, their irregularly published artist’s book-magazine of surreal staged photographs, or the co-publication with Paul Chan’s Badlands of a radical new translation of Plato’s Hippias Minor. By taking what the book’s editors call an “unscientific approach,” Deste 33 Years: 1983–2015 retraces the development of Joannou’s foundation in a combination of oral history and archival format; 850 pages of photographs, press clippings, critical reviews, correspondence, and unabashed conversations reveal not only the ups and downs of the foundation, but offer an intimate glimpse into the state of contemporary art. The spirit of the book is driven by Jounnou’s desire to empower artists to generate ideas and connect with contemporary culture. Patronage for those with Medici-scaled aspirations and resources start their own museum. Some reflect trends but for Joannou patronage has always meant something personal. As he writes in the introduction to Deste 33 Years, “For some, art is, above all, a luxury. But not for me. We don’t need it to survive, but we do need it. It’s what man needs to remind him that he’s human after all.” Joannou, who studied engineering and architecture in the U.S., initially set out to create a museum of contemporary culture when he established Deste (which means “look” in Greek) more than three decades ago. According to him, by building a collection, you’re saying, “This is what I believe.”

Jeffrey Deitch (left), Massimiliano Gioni (center), and Dakis Joannou (right) with Maurizio Cattelan at “Monument to Now” (2004) at the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art.

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Jeff Koons designed yacht "Guilty" , owned by greek art collector Dakis Joannou. Source

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A Jeff Koons That Floats? Inside Dakis Joannou's Maritime Masterpiece

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1968: Radical Italian Furniture – Toiletpaper x DESTE

The famed collector Dakis Joannou has collaborated with TOILETPAPER's Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari on a new book that celebrates a revolutionary period for Italian design.

1968 is a compendium of the avant-garde and kitsch design era that redefined the notion of 'good taste'.

Get your copy here.