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5 unusual facts about Dikeou Collection


Dikeou Collection

In September 2006, the exhibition space again doubled to include seven more artists: Janine Gordon, Lawrence Seward, Tracy Nakayama, Chris Gilmour, Lisa Kereszi, Serge Onnen, and Devon Dikeou herself.

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Vik Muniz’s “Last Supper” is a triptych photograph of chocolate syrup, which has been manipulated into a drawing of the “Last Supper”, inspired by the Warhol images of the same subject.

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Tracy Nakayama’s drawings play with sexual and pornographic stereotypes, and this suite of drawings address these ideas with humor.

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The first leg of exhibition space featured the work of 10 artists: Rainer Ganahl, Ester Partegas, Juan Eduardo Gómez Osorio, Giasco Bertoli, Simon Periton, Vik Muniz, Momoyo Torimitsu, Dan Asher, Lee Stoetzel, Paul Ramirez Jonas.

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Ester Partegàs’s “Homeless” is a life-size replica of a coach class airplane chair made out of Styrofoam, and accompanied by a series of commercial packages and shopping bags.



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