Susanne ghez biography
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Susanne ghez biography
Susanne Ghez Renaissance Woman
ON HER FIRST DAY visiting the 2009 Venice Biennale, Susanne Ghez saw the Romanian pavilion, one that, according to her, almost everyone else was ignoring, since the Eastern European country is not exactly an artistic trendsetter.
She was so captivated by what she saw that she immediately sought out its curator, Alina Serban, and asked if she could bring not just the work of the three artists (Stefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu and Ciprian Muresan) but the entire building, a specially designed two-story structure by Bucharest’s Studio Basar, to the United States.
Ghez told Art in America, “I’m sure she thought I was crazy.” But the resulting show opened less than a year later at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, where Ghez is executive director and chief curator.
“In fact, it worked out very well, and the artists couldn’t have been happier,” said Ghez, 74, who is stepping down in Janua