If you haven't seen this article, in today's NYTimes, you must! Jeff Koons in the palace of the Sun King! How fitting!
Perfect!
Divinely inspired, I'm sure!
He says that the placement of his white marble rococo Self-Portrait in the same room as portraits of Louis XIV and Louis XVI was not a gesture of arrogance, “It didn’t have to do with my own ego, but it did have to do with the playfulness and a contemporary monumentality." Absolutely. Koons thinks big and in the Realm of Possibilities just like the sumptuous, over-blown halls and gardens, operas and costumes of King Louis. Koons' works are inflated, larger-than-life, and manufactured to perfection with a mirror sheen just like... the comparisons are endless.
What is it to have the world in your hands? This artist says Anything is Possible, and it is. Monumental. Glorious. Grand!
Article by Elaine Sciolino and photos by Ed Alcock.
