The DESTE Foundation inaugurates its new space in Neo Psychico, Athens with an exhibition held in three parts entitled Global Vision: New Art from the ’90s. Featuring recent acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, the show reflects the individualistic tendencies of art in the ‘90s. The first part of the show includes works by Nikos Charalambidis, Kcho, Chris Ofili, Yinka Shonibare, Jocelyn Taylor, and Kara Walker.
Borrowing both from local traditions and global culture, many of the artists in Global Vision are of non-Western origin and have created their own unique styles to form a bridge between the self and the world, between private and public. Others have drawn on their Western, urban experiences to create works that explore the relationship of art with the media, pop culture, and metropolitan lifestyle.
The selection of these works is intended to reflect the plurality of languages and cultural diversity that characterizes the art of the late ‘90s. The show aims to examine how the artist constructs an interior world which simultaneously transcends geographical and national boundaries as well as questions of topicality. Issues of individual and collective identity, colonial and national heritage, hybridity and homogeneity, and universality and locality are all raised in an attempt to stimulate an intercultural dialogue while affirming the articulation of selfhood.
