{"title":"Dieter Roth \u0026 Josh Smith","description":"\u003csection class=\"content-text\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"\"\u003eDieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist, born in Hannover, Germany, best known for his artist’s books, prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"content-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eIn 1954 he met the artist Daniel Spoerri, who would later set up Editions MAT, a publishing house for editioned books and sculptures, which would print some of Roth’s early works.  In 1957 Roth married an Icelandic woman, Sigríour Björnsdóttir, and moved with her to Reykjavik, where he founded the publishing company, forlag ed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eMany people think that the conceptual work of Dieter Roth and Ed Ruscha in the 1950s and 1960s mark the foundation of the genre of artists’ books.  Roth distinctive contribution was his examination of the formal qualities of books themselves. In a number of the works he published, he dispensed with the codex, and allowed the arrangement of pages to be random, made by the reader, or created books with holes throughout, allowing the viewer to see more than one page at the same time. The disruption of the codex’s authority was an important part of the definition of artists’ books. Roth’s most notorious artist’s book was the Staple Cheese (A Chase) for a 1970 exhibition at the Eugenia Butler Gallery in Los Angeles. It consisted of a series of suitcases filled with cheese, as well as wall mounted cheese intended to drip over a horizontal line below. A different case was opened each day to reveal different states of decay. In less than three weeks, the gallery was ‘practically impossible to enter with prospective viewers having to contend with flies, larvae and maggots as well as the smell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"content-text\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"\"\u003eJosh Smith was born in 1976 in Okinawa, Japan. Best known for his semi-abstract paintings which feature pictograph-like symbols, Smith also makes sculptures, collages, ceramics, books, prints and posters, and is an accomplished draftsman.\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"content-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSmith’s father was in the US Army, and his family moved frequently, eventually settling in East Tennessee, where the artist mostly grew up. He studied at the Miami University in Ohio, and later at the University of Tennessee.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSmith’s work has been presented in many solo exhibitions, including the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2016); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (2015); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2013); The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2011); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2009); De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2009-2010); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna (2008); and SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2004). He has been included in many notable group exhibitions, including the 2011 Venice Biennale, and The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009). Josh Smith’s works are held in the collections of the Broad Museum, Los Angeles, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"contemplations-of-a-collector-irini-pari-in-conversation-with-dimitris-daskalopoulos-2024","title":"Contemplations Of A Collector: Irini Pari in conversation with Dimitris Daskalopoulos, 2024","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe allure of contemporary art through the lens of a major collection. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn a contemplative walk through a 30 year collecting endeavor in the art of our time, collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos and his partner Irini Pari, converse in this book on the main compulsions and preoccupations of collecting and share their fascination of the artist works collected.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThis book is a dialogue between two art lovers, a couple, sharing their passion and ideas about the existential mystery of life as depicted in the collection's artworks. This book is about Love, Life, Art! \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nImportant artists in the Collection include: Marina Abramović, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Paul Chan, Bruce Conner, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Jannis Kounellis, Stathis Logothetis, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Ana Mendieta, Marisa Merz, Annette Messager, Wangechi Mutu, Ernesto Neto, Cornelia Parker, Pipilotti Rist, Dieter Roth, Doris Salcedo, Kiki Smith, and Paul Thek.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThrough conversations between Irini Pari and Dimitris Daskalopoulos, we discover the driving force, the challenges, and the subjects that moved the collector to assemble this extraordinary collection.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDimitris Daskalopoulos\u003c\/strong\u003e (born 1957 in Athens, Greece) is an entrepreneur and a collector of contemporary art. He is also a Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, an active member of the Tate International Council, the Leadership Council of the New Museum, and a founding partner of the Whitechapel's Future Fund.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eIrini Pari \u003c\/strong\u003e a passionate of the European Union ideal, an advocate of entrepreneurship and an expert in consensus building she dedicated a 30-year career in Brussels to promoting those objectives in different high level positions in the European Union. 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