Art: Jeff Koons

28 November, 2009 at 10:33 | Posted in Art | Leave a comment
Tags: Art, Jeff Koons, Sculpture

My favourite living artist is Jeff Koons. Toronto is well-aquainted with him following an appearance of Rabbit at this year’s Nuit Blanche.  

His fans consider him a pop artist; his critics label his work shallow and trivial. I think they’re both right. He has openly admitted that there is no hidden meaning to his work. His bright colours, fun shapes and eye-catching imagery appear to be designed with the intention of appealing to the masses. 

 

Rabbit hangs in Toronto’s Eaton Centre for Nuit Blanche. 

The original Rabbit was made of stainless steel and took up an entire room.

His painting Lips is the result of a collage created by computers.

For $7,500 US you too can have a flower vase shaped as a West Highland Terrier.

His work appeals to me because its fun, optimistic, and utterly lacking in pretention. “A viewer might at first see irony in my work… but I see none at all. Irony causes too much critical contemplation,” said Koons.

If his massive stainless-steel balloon sculptures don’t appeal to you, maybe his refreshing honesty will.

stephwereley