Dikeou collection
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The Dikeou Collection is a private contemporary art collection located in downtown Denver, Colorado on the fifth floor of the historic Colorado Building, just off the 16th Street Mall. Founded by Denver natives, Devon and Pany Dikeou in 1998, and opened to the public in 2003, the collection features work by more than twenty-five artists from around the world.
First conceived as a tangible extension of zingmagazine (published by Devon Dikeou), the Dikeou Collection seeks to explore the possibilities of space. For example, the exquisite corpse project entitled, “Christmas Drawings,” (2001) by The Royal Art Lodge, questions space that sits between artists working in collaboration. Alternatively, Wade Guyton’s installation, “The Room Moved The Way Blocked,” (1998) created specially for a particular room in the collection, attempts to disorient physical space as perceived by the viewer. Most recently added to the collection is Chris Gilmour’s “Ford” (2006) which consists of a nearly life size cardboard car, taking on the theme of space in terms of matter and substance, in order to investigate deconstructionist and materialist motifs.
The Dikeou Collection is presently hosting the Invisible Museum’s first Curator-in-Residency exhibition entitled, “Unwrapping the Wing,” a project inspired by the recent opening of the new contemporary art wing of the Denver Art Museum. First Curator-in-Residence, Devon Dikeou, working with the founders and board of the Invisible Museum, challenged various artists to creatively employ the material called “netto” which was used to protect and cover the Hamilton Building, during construction. A work of particular local interest because of its high public visibility, was "use a bicycle," by Rainer Ganahl. September 28th through October 1st, and October 5th through October 8th of this year, eighty-three custom designed meterhoods bearing Ganahl's humorous and environmentally-concerned logo, were used to cover meters between the Dikeou Collection and the Denver Art Museum. The exhibition which also features work by Maria Antelman, Sebastiaan Bremer, Janine Gordon, Lucky de Bellevue, Lisa Kereszi, Mary Ehrin, Lee Stoetzel, Misaki Kawai, Serge Onnen, Matt Murphy, Jay Stuckey, Lawrence Seward, and Tracy Nakayama, is open through the end of January 2007.
[edit] PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITIONS
Beginning January 2007, the Dikeou Collection will host a series of curated poetry and fiction readings, in which the work of a particular writer will be matched with a room in the collection, to be read aloud before a public audience.
The Dikeou Collection provides a free weekly e-mail listing of art openings, poetry readings, film events and more, as an extension of the NYC-based, zingrecommends. The Denver edition, appropriately entitled, zingrecsDENVER, seeks to encourage awareness and active interest in Denver’s rapidly growing artistic community.
[edit] ARTISTS FEATURED AT THE DIKEOU COLLECTION
Rainer Ganahl, Ester Partegas, Juan Gomez, Giasco Bertoli, Simon Periton, Vik Muniz, Momoyo Torimitsu, Dan Asher, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Misaki Kawai, Lee Stoetzel, Chris Johanson, Jonathan Horowitz, Luis Macias, The Royal Art Lodge, Sarah Staton, Wade Guyton, Janine Gordon, Tracy Nakayama, Devon Dikeou, Lawrence Seward, Chris Gilmour, Lisa Kereszi, Serge Onnen
