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Antiquity 1
In his 'Antiquity' series, Jeff Koons revisits themes of eros, libido, fertility, and feminine beauty as represented throughout art history. The series combines images depicting Greco-Roman sculptures with paintings of a more contemporary, photo-realist type of feminine beauty, such as one of actress Gretchen Mol posing as the famous pinup Bettie Page.
The unifying image across the series is a seemingly child-like drawing of a sailboat under the sun passing between two hills, rendered here in foil-stamped copper. It is another example of Koons' fondness for double entendres, as the drawing also reveals the outline of Courbet's voyeuristic painting L’Origine du Monde, which is an artwork that directly provokes our reluctance to acknowledge and accept realistic depictions of our innermost desires.
Jeff Koons, one the most recognized and popular contemporary artists working today, creates work that both appropriates and reveres popular culture. The artist is best known for his oversized sculptures of toys, souvenirs, and ornaments. In addition to dramatically increasing their scale, Koons' use of sturdy materials recasts these exemplars of ephemera and kitsch into permanent features of our landscape.
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Jeff Koons, one the most recognized contemporary artists working today, creates work that both appropriates and reveres popular culture. The artist is best known for his oversized sculptures of toys, souvenirs, and ornaments. In addition to dramatically increasing their scale, Koons' use of sturdy materials recasts these exemplars of ephemera and kitsch into permanent features of our landscape.
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Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. The artist received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
Koons moved to New York City in the late 1970s where he initially made a living as a stockbroker. The artist gained international recognition and prominence with the creation of his signature sculptures Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988) and Puppy (1992), the latter of which has been installed in Sydney Harbour in Australia; Bilbao, Spain; and the Palace of Versailles in France.
Solo exhibitions of Koons' work have taken place at: the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Museo di Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy; the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Mexico; the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; among others.
Group exhibitions that have shown Koons' work have taken place at: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California; and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal; among others.
Koons’ works are held in numerous public collections, including at: the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; MoMA in New York City; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Tate Modern in London, UK; and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam; among others.
Koons lives and works in New York City.
In his 'Antiquity' series, Jeff Koons revisits themes of eros, libido, fertility, and feminine beauty as represented throughout art history. The series combines images depicting Greco-Roman sculptures with paintings of a more contemporary, photo-realist type of feminine beauty, such as one of actress Gretchen Mol posing as the famous pinup Bettie Page.More
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