ART CITIES:Jeff Koon’s Retrospective at Paris
The big retrospective organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art the Summer in New York with 100-150 works of Jeff Koons celebrating his presence for 35 years in the art scene, is traveling in Paris at the Centre Pompidou. This is the first retrospective dedicated on Jeff Koons in Europe, after Paris this retrospective will travel at Guggenheim Museum – Bilbao.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Witney Museum & Centre George Pompidou Archives
The exhibition of the famous artist in Paris, whose work we have seen several times in Greece, through the collection of the Deste Foundation and the Dakis Joannou Collection, makes it possible to appreciate fully the body of work that has marked the contemporary artistic and cultural landscape for 35 years. Highlighting the different cycles that passed the artist form his first works that reflect the art of their time, so that the current talk silently to the history of classical art. Jeff Koons is one of the first artists who used all means of expression in parallel to express his visual ideas, views, searches and reflections arising from his personal life, pop-culture, media and advertising. As he stated in an interview granted to me the year 1999-2000, on his solo exhibition at the Deste Foundation ”A Millennium Celebration”, (This interview will be reposted soon), he likes particularly, the classics, the Picasso – the collage and believes that his work is a collage of images. Some of his works exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, are: The aquariums in the “Equilibrium” series (1985), “Rabbit” (1986), “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” (1988) and “Balloon Dog” (1994–2000) that have gained immense popularity and made their mark on contemporary visual culture, and are coming from large and important collections of contemporary art internationally.
Info: Centre George Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris, Duration: 26/11/14-27/4/15, Days & Hours: Wed-Mon: 11:00-22:00, www.centrepompidou.fr
