Founder of China Art, Giovanni Intra, 34, Dies
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Founder of China Art, Giovanni Intra, 34, Dies



NEW YORK.- The founder of China Art Objects Galleries, Giovanni Intra, 34, died in Manhattan. He was a writer and a partner in this gallery of Los Angeles. Giovanni Intra was born in 1968 in Auckland, New Zealand. He began painting as a teenager. He earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. There he helped found an alternative space called Teststrip. In 1996 Giovanni Intra was given a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and earned a master’s degree in critical studies in 2001.

 

In 1998 he and Steve Hansonfounded the China Art Objects Gallery. Among the artists featured there are: Jorge Pardo, Laura Owens, Steven Prina and Frances Stark, David Korty, John Pylypchuk, Eric Wesley, J. P. Munro and Mason Cooley. Giovanni Intra was West Coast editor for the magazine Art and Text, and helped edit the magazine Semiotext. He wrote articles in Tema Celeste, Artforum, Bookforum and Flash Art.











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