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Genre/Form: | Exhibition catalogs Interviews Exhibitions |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jeff Koons. Ostifildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag ; Berlin : Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, ©2008 (OCoLC)653490522 |
Named Person: | Jeff Koons; Jeff Koons; Jeff Koons; Jeff Koons |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeff Koons; Anette Hüsch; Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany) |
ISBN: | 9783775723114 3775723110 |
OCLC Number: | 286494778 |
Language Note: | German and English. |
Notes: | Cataloged in conjunction with an exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Oct. 31, 2008-Feb. 8, 2009. |
Description: | 117 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
Contents: | Catalogue -- In conversation with Jeff Koons / Peter-Klaus Schuster -- jeff koons / Rainald Goetz -- Archetypes for survival. Or, how art can comfort / Anette Hüsch. |
Other Titles: | Celebration |
Responsibility: | editor, Anette Hüsch. |
Abstract:
Jeff Koons' spectacular October 2008 exhibition at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie presented the infamous series of sculptures and paintings known collectively as Celebration, a project whose fabrication has involved so much labor (both manual and computer-aided) that Koons More ... seemed to almost vanish from the art world radar in the 1990s, when he first undertook the series. At present, Celebration's best-known work may be the 10-foot-tall, stainless-steel Balloon Dog, typical of the outsize scale and remarkably clean sheen of Koons' sculptures, in which the sensory joys of childhood object relations are revisited and espoused. Such works wear their playroom origins on their sleeves, but their gargantuan proportions, with their attendant sense of menace, establish them firmly in the adult world as infant objects retrieved and rebuilt with adult strength. The work tries to gain support from the confidence of the gesture, Koons says, to be kind of in the moment, and to have confidence within the self. Inasmuch as such observations could be true of much art, Koons is unusually open about what drives his work, all the while preserving its self-sufficiency as art. This monograph documents these mammoth installations in the Neue Nationalgalerie's Upper Hall, an exhibition that without doubt constitutes a milestone in the artist's career.
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