Jeff Koons — "Art is about engaging with the world around us."
Art is about engaging with the world around us.
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"My work is about the pursuit of happiness."
"I think that art is really about generosity. It's about being able to give to others."
"I want my work to encourage people to think about their place in the world."
"I’ve always been interested in the idea of the new, but the new is really about communication, it’s about connection. It’s about being able to communicate with people and being able to share with them…"
"I'm interested in the idea of the consumer. I think that art can be a form of consumption."
About Jeff Koons (born 1955)
American contemporary artist whose Balloon Dog and Rabbit sculptures hold record sale prices for living artists; defines high-end commodified Pop. Closely associated with Damien Hirst (YBA-generation peer with similar production-line studio model) and Takashi Murakami (Superflat parallel from Japan). For an intellectual contrast, see Marina Abramović, Serbian-American performance artist — Abramović's body-on-the-line endurance work (The Artist Is Present, 2010) is the precise opposite of Koons's outsourced-fabrication, surface-shine commodification. Abramović's unmediated authorship vs Koons's factory production are the two cleanest poles of late-20th-century 'what is the artist for?' debate.