By JRS
When Greek industrialist Dakis Joannou’s prodigious modern art collection arrives for its tour at the New Museum in February 2010, it will have a new curator to ensure a smooth run. Jeff Koons, the artist whom Joannou credits with his involvement in the art world after experiencing “Equilibrium,” will oversee the production of the show and, in the tradition of Urs Fischer before him with “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus,” will use the entire museum as his new manifestation. This new role will bring carte blanche to Koons to exhibit the work as it has never been seen, which is quite fitting for the collections’s first visit to the US.
Along with the ubiquitous Koons works spread throughout the exhibition, there will be a considerable sampling of the modern-art tour de force, including work from Takashi Murakami, Vanessa Beecroft, Ashley Bickerton, Allan McCollum, and Gabriel Orozco, among many others.
Joannou has been expected to exhibit his collection at the museum for nearly a decade.
"Guilty," the 110-foot yacht Jeff Koon's designed for Dakis Joannou. Photo courtesy of monacoeye.com
