Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koonsis an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth21 January 1955
CityYork, PA
CountryUnited States of America
germany produce artwork
I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
my-family my-favorite activity
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
spiritual essence doe
A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
spiritual two details
I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.
needs stay-focused workers
It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.
drawing tree missing
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
years two done
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
money financial protect
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
spiritual moving civilization
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
philosophy versailles kind
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.
trying enjoy audience
I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.
sex believe reality
I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .
biological certain excitement feels generate physical possibilities reaction respond work
There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!
broken concerned ground ready water
We haven't even broken ground yet, and we're ready to sell, ... I'm concerned about the water resources.