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06.18.09 SMOOTH CRIMINALS
Dakis Joannou christens a new Deste Foundation outpost with a fishy performance from Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton

In his latest stunt of organized art crime, collector Dakis Joannou makes no play at innocence. Tuesday at six a.m., a dead shark, the victim of "Blood of Two," the first collaboration between Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton, was solemnly carried above a glass case along a curved road on Hydra, in front of a mesmerized crowd. Commissioned by Joannou for the opening of the Deste Foundation's new exhibition space (the Slaughterhouse, named after its former use), Barney and Peyton's works consists of a series of drawings, several paintings, and a sculpture. The main event, though, was the "unveiling" of the key work, with a group of muscle-bound Greek fishermen pulling out of the sea an iconic Barney case in which Peyton's drawings had been kept for three months. The display of strength and resolve (the case shouldn't have been filled with water, but it only added to the drama) kept the art world A-list attendance fairly quiet until the dead shark was thrown onto the case and the men began marching toward the venue. Quasi-hysteria took over the happy bunch, in which those who had had only a few hours of sleep before the two-hour performance could hardly be distinguished from those who had stayed up all night. "Dakis of death" and "Sushi anyone?" were the tasteful jokes one could hear spreading across the still-inebriated crowd. Little did they know that the shark would be served for dinner. Simon Castets

www.deste.gr

Photography Cyril Duval 


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