DESTE PRESENTS GEN X: TALES FROM THE FORGOTTEN GENERATION CURATED BY MASSIMILIANO GIONI, CALVIN WANG & TAEYI KIM

Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten Generation at DESTE rips open the duct‑taped, MTV‑lit gap between boomers and millennials:

works from the Dakis Joannou Collection by artists born 1960–1980 fling black humour, cynical honesty and acid‑house domestic terror at cable‑TV spectacle,
grunge and early hip‑hop, decaying avatars, chrome cyborgs, cartoonish violence and
over‑pixelled TVs collide in a slap‑in‑the‑face chromatic blast that celebrates a fiercely
independent, underparented “forgotten” cohort who turned lowbrow materials and post‑punk
malaise into a weird, angry, hopeful toolkit that still punches the frame open.