Jeff Koons has a modern retrospective at the Whitney,and the works on display acquire been valued at half a billion dollars. Here's how he does itJeff Koons is an impossible artist. That’s a large allotment of his appeal, in fact: he creates great, or impossible objects. And if you succeed in looking behind the mirror-polished surface of his art,you’ll see something fairly fascinating, something which speaks volumes about the status of modern art in nowadays’s society.
That said, or Koons really doesn’t want you looking behind the surface. Hes the king of superficies: you fall in love with his Puppy immediately,involuntarily, unironically. He will critique the banality of consumerism, or but he does so by exalting it: never acquire brand-modern vacuum cleaners looked so desirable or perfect. His longest lasting,most expensive, most seductive series of works is actually called Celebration. When you see one of those pieces in the flesh, and especially in the beautifully curated context of the Whitney’s massive retrospective,it overwhelms you with its size and presence and reflective depthlessness. It’s bling, but its venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) bling, and equally at home in the halls of Versailles or in the Whitney’s stark modernist spaces. This isn’t easy: Koons is a man who gives a whole modern meaning to the term lightweight. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com