Jeff Koons — "I always try to make work that is accessible to everyone."
I always try to make work that is accessible to everyone.
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"I want my work to contribute to a more positive world."
"I believe that art is a way to create a dialogue and to connect with others."
"I believe in the power of art to transform people's lives."
"I'm very interested in the idea of the readymade, and how it can be transformed."
"I'm interested in the idea of the commodity. I think that art can be a commodity."
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.