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Jeff Koons is one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial living artists. He has created a new take on the concept of the “readymade”. By blurring the boundary between art and mass culture, he has transformed the relationship of artists to the global market.
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Jeff Koons employs over a 100 people in his studio. He is involved in each piece and considers every piece produced to be his own.
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He has made Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs suspended in glass aquariums, porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther, and glass depictions of himself coupled with his then-wife Ilona Staller, also known as La Cicciolina (a former adult-film star and member of the Italian parliament). Koons presents art as a commodity that cannot be placed within the hierarchy of conventional aesthetics
Puppy
in 1997, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain installed Koons’s 43-foot-tall Puppy sculpture to its permanent collection. Displayed outside the museum in Aguirre Plaza, Puppy is a stainless steel West Highland terrier with plant life blooming across its surface.
Koons studied at the Art Institute of Chicago was mentored by famed Chicago Imagists like Ed Paschke.
