Frasi di Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Data di nascita: 21. Gennaio 1955
Jeffrey Koons, più semplicemente conosciuto come Jeff Koons , è un artista statunitense noto per le sue opere di gusto kitsch, che illustrano ironicamente l'american way of life e la sua tendenza al consumismo. Viene inoltre considerato un'icona dello stile neo-pop e riconosciuto fra gli artisti più ricchi del mondo.
Nel corso della propria carriera, Koons si è espresso attraverso l'utilizzo di un'ampia gamma di tecniche, come ad esempio scultura, pittura, installazioni e fotografia, e l'utilizzo di differenti materiali tra cui pigmenti, plastica, gonfiabili, marmo, metalli e porcellana. L'artista viene generalmente definito erede di Andy Warhol e continuatore della pop art. Altro autore a cui viene generalmente associato è Marcel Duchamp, del quale reinterpreta la tecnica del ready-made.
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„I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.“
— Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons in: Ottman, K. (1988) "Jeff Koons," Journal of Contemporary Art–Online 1(1): 18–23; cited in: Galman, Sally AC. "The truthful messenger: visual methods and representation in qualitative research in education." qualitative research 9.2 (2009): 197-217.
„I'm trying to go through moral crisis myself to the highest degree that I can, to remove moral crisis from the visual vocabulary of the viewer, so that when somebody sees my work, the only thing that they see is the Sacred Heart of Jesus“
— Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center (1992). Jeff Koons. p. 103
„I’ve always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That’s what I’ve always done.“
— Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons in: Graeme Green. "[http://metro.co.uk/2007/07/18/60-seconds-jeff-koons-532798/#ixzz3bThr2XKI 60 SECONDS: Jeff Koons]," at metro.co.uk, 2007/07/18
„The media, the galleries, the collectors – it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine. Of course there's a system of sorts. This person will talk to that person and somebody else will pass it on to somebody else... you can trace a line of power of some kind. But its nothing like as clear and set as people think. And this chaos leads to a lot of insecurity. It's only after an artist has achieved some independence from it that he MODERN PAINTERS can really stand up to the collectors and the dealers and do his art.“
— Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons in: Modern Painters. Vol. 2 (1989), p. 63
„My work will use everything that it can to communicate. It will use any trick; it'll do anything — absolutely anything — to communicate and to win the viewer over. Even the most unsophisticated people are not threatened by it; they aren't threatened that this is something they have no understanding of. They can look at it and they can participate with it. And also somebody who has been very highly educated in art and deals with more esoteric areas can also view it and find that the work is open as far as being something that wants to add more to our culture. The work wants to meet the needs of' the people. It tries to bring down all the barriers that block people From their culture. that shield and hide them. It tells them to embrace the moment instead of always feeling that they're being indulged by things that they do not participate in. It tells them to believe in something and to eject their will. The idea of St. John and baptism right now is that there are greater things to come. And it's about embracing guilt and shame and moving forward instead of letting this negative society always thwart us — always a more negative society, always more negative.“
— Jeff Koons
Partly cited in: . Art on the edge and over: searching for art's meaning in contemporary society, 1970s-1990s. Art Insights, Inc., 1996. p. 201; And cited in Kristine Stiles, Peter Howard Selz (1996). Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings. p. 381
