DEEDS CALENDAR: Jimmy DeSana – Meyer Riegger | until 22.12.2023
Fig. above: Jimmy DeSana. Shoe, 1979. stamped by DeSana Estate verso – vintage C-print. Sheet: 40,6 x 50,8 cm, Image: 34,3 x 49,2 cm, © Jimmy DeSana Trust. Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust, P·P·O·W, New York and Meyer. Riegger, Berlin
Meyer Riegger shows 53 works from all phases of Jimmy DeSana’s short but productive career. With a series of 56 black-and-white lithographs called 101 Nudes, DeSana completed his art studies at Georgia State University in 1972, where he had initially begun with painting and turned to photography from the second semester onwards. His final project already reveals the themes that preoccupied DeSana ever since and which, until his AIDS diagnosis in 1985,he was to view mostly with humour: the body, sex, objectification and submission-almost always in a domestic setting.
WHERE?
Meyer Riegger
Schaperstraße 14
10719 Berlin
WHEN?
Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday+Monday closed
Fig. above: Jimmy DeSana. Shoe, 1979. stamped by DeSana Estate verso – vintage C-print. Sheet: 40,6 x 50,8 cm, Image: 34,3 x 49,2 cm, © Jimmy DeSana Trust. Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust, P·P·O·W, New York and Meyer. Riegger, Berlin
