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| Jeff Koons art can only be erotic  Guardians of the Secret, 1943 Jeff Koons in his NY studio |
Jeff Koons Born 1955, York, Pennsylvania, USA. The artist lives and works in New York City. |
 Jeff KoonsIn her foreword, Pritzker Director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Madeleine Grynsztejn, describes artist Jeff Koons's work as "a panorama of our culture's desires, fantasies, absurdities, banalities, and delights" rendered with a "celebratory, almost childlike sense of wonder." Skilled in a variety of mediums and materials, Koons combines the aesthetic force of Pop, Surrealism and Imagism to produce the eye-popping exhibitions profiled here, from his 1970s Chicago work to his latest work with inflatables, enormous stainless-steel animal balloons and "Hulk Elvis." Koons' first two exhibitions, 1979's "Pre-New" and "The New," feature actual household appliances illuminated in Plexiglas cases, playfully reviving the novelty and awe these items were meant to inspire in the middle class consumer... |