Comments on: Your Moment of Art Apocalypse – Jeff Koons at Versailles http://www.marshallastor.com/2008/10/14/your-moment-of-art-apocalypse-jeff-koons-at-versailles/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: thesecretlivesofcats http://www.marshallastor.com/2008/10/14/your-moment-of-art-apocalypse-jeff-koons-at-versailles/comment-page-1/#comment-63434 thesecretlivesofcats Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:51:04 +0000 http://www.marshallastor.com/?p=613#comment-63434 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! 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!

]]> By: km http://www.marshallastor.com/2008/10/14/your-moment-of-art-apocalypse-jeff-koons-at-versailles/comment-page-1/#comment-63335 km Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:57:35 +0000 http://www.marshallastor.com/?p=613#comment-63335 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... 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…

]]> By: marshall http://www.marshallastor.com/2008/10/14/your-moment-of-art-apocalypse-jeff-koons-at-versailles/comment-page-1/#comment-63274 marshall Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:28:09 +0000 http://www.marshallastor.com/?p=613#comment-63274 I totally agree that it's a match, but man, why are institutions still enabling Koons? I totally agree that it’s a match, but man, why are institutions still enabling Koons?

]]> By: C-Mon http://www.marshallastor.com/2008/10/14/your-moment-of-art-apocalypse-jeff-koons-at-versailles/comment-page-1/#comment-63188 C-Mon Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:01:08 +0000 http://www.marshallastor.com/?p=613#comment-63188 i think it's a perfect marriage. it's really old tacky rich people stuff with brand new tacky rich people stuff. i think it’s a perfect marriage. it’s really old tacky rich people stuff with brand new tacky rich people stuff.

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