Artist Andres Serrano’s ecclesiastical Greenwich Village home is not a museum. DHWendyGoodman reports
The Living Room: Andres Serrano and Irina Movmyga at home on a 17th-century cassapanca. Serrano’s dealer, Yvon Lambert, found the 16th-century life-size Corpus Christi for him in Avignon. “He took it upon himself to get it for me,” Serrano says. “And I was so happy.
His apartment, however, is not a museum. “Please,” he says, when I ask if it is all right to sit on the age-polished surface of one of the 17th-century cassapancas — an Italian piece of furniture that evolved from the cassone, which “was used as a chest for traveling from one castle to another”—in his great hall of a living room. The place might have the feel of a castle, but it’s where he lives with his wife, the jewelry designer Irina Movmyga, and works when he is in town.
Serrano’s photograph The Other Christ, from 2001, is the only piece of his in the apartment, which brings me to ask about Piss Christ, which depicts an image of a plastic crucifix submerged in the artist’s own urine. It was the antithesis of the usually romanticized image of Christ dying on the cross.
The Dining Area: The wood paneling came from the Excelsior Hotel off Central Park West. “My first contractor told me that he knew someone who knew the owner of the hotel,” Serrano says. “He said, ‘They are redoing the lobby, and maybe there is stuff you want to see?’ I saw this beautiful paneling they were ripping off the wall.” The English-oak table was found at the store Turbulence. “I like everything about old oak,” he says.
View of the Garden: From the Bedroom Serrano planted wisteria and bamboo outside. The seat of the 17th-century English chair opens for storage. He found the 18th-century Portuguese floor tiles in Paris at the Port de Clignancourt flea market. The Dining Area: The wood paneling came from the Excelsior Hotel off Central Park West. “My first contractor told me that he knew someone who knew the owner of the hotel,” Serrano says. “He said, ‘They are redoing the lobby, and maybe there is stuff you want to see?’ I saw this beautiful paneling they were ripping off the wall.” The English-oak table was found at the store Turbulence. “I like everything about old oak,” he says.
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