Jenny Hart over at Dinosaurs and Robots went to the Koons exhibition at Versailles. Apparently it was verboten for the tour guides to talk shit about the art, but they couldn’t help themselves, a feeling that I think anyone in the presence of Koons’ work seems to share. I can’t recall being in the presence of his work and not hearing someone talk shit, and I’ve never in my entire life heard someone advocate his work. Even people who work on his projects seem to loathe him.
Hart liked the exhibition, and there’s a whole Flickr set of her shots here.
Photo at top by Flickr user Ted Drake.
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i think it’s a perfect marriage. it’s really old tacky rich people stuff with brand new tacky rich people stuff.
I totally agree that it’s a match, but man, why are institutions still enabling Koons?
Does a bust qualify as a severed head or must it be cut off above the shoulder line?
Why are they still enabling him? Who knows. It must be some sort of co-dependency thing. “Your work is trite and derivative but if we show you enough love and keep giving you shows, you’ll be the artist we know you can be.” It could be worse, like some rich guy hammering a cube into a chair. Whoops, wait a minute…
Jeff Koonzes Banality series is a “fuck-you” essential and makes you feel pretty small and empty-as art should sometimes. If you have any love of 80′s-era American Psycho nihilism, well, Jeff Koons predated, and embodied that. I see a paralell between Michael Jackson and Bubbles and Duchamp’s Fountain/Urinal for the shockwaves they produced in the artworld… and both objecs prove that a benign ceramic material-porcelain-can mess with our heads. Long live the kiln!