Stavros Niarchos
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PC Valmorbida was born in Melbourne, Australia and is the son of Italian immigrants and heir to one of Australia's largest private conglomerates.The first time I spoke to PC Valmorbida was on a tip that he was going to be selling off the inventory from the then-still-open Deitch Projects. I called him out of the blue, hit him with the question and he quickly denied it and got off the phone. “That was a strange phone call,” recalls Valmorbida. “It was out of the blue for me, I was freaked out.” The rumor was false, but speculation about speculation isn’t entirely beyond the purview of this 23-year-old Aussie transplant, whose steel-and-glass Prism Gallery on the Sunset Strip has put on some of the more innovative and unpredictable shows to hit Los Angeles since it opened last fall with a show of works curated by RVCA founder PM Tenore. Since then Prism has hosted the after-party of the MOCA gala, put on a retrospective of legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, and installed a monstrous blue light sculpture on the roof by Angeleno artist Gustavo Godoy. The latest venture, “Misericordia,” a centuries- and medium-sprawling group show curated by Pace Gallery director Birte Kleemann, opened this weekend.
