Calder and Ugo Rondinone Are on Her Wish List
“The Irene Panagopoulos Collection” appeared on several artwork labels at Documenta 14 this year, both in Athens and Kassel. Based on her father’s Greek art collection, Irene Panagopoulos has constructed her unique collection of international and Greek contemporary art. With a passion for art stemmed from her art studies at Mills College, she is now an entrepreneur, an art collector and a trustee at Dia Art Foundation. Larry’s List has asked Irene Panagopoulos to share about her first art purchase ever at Art Basel, her artwork wishlist as well as her vision for the revolving art scene in Greece. What made you start collecting art? My father was a collector and I learned the pleasure of collecting from him. I remember our house covered floor-to-floor with overlapping oriental carpets, a collecting obsession of my father. Antique maps of Greece covered the walls in antithesis to paintings of modern Greek artists. Collecting was an aesthetic retreat for my eclectic다방면의,절...