Comments on: About curating: Jeff Koons at Versailles

By: bruchansky

bruchansky — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:10:01 +0000

Thanks for the information, I didn’t know that dimension. Here is what I found on http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2106:
“Jeff Koons used flowers to represent sexuality in his “Made in Heaven” series. Of his Large Vase of Flowers (1991), Koons wrote, “There are 140 flowers. They are very sexual and fertile, and at the same time they are 140 assholes.” “

By: gregoire kaufman

gregoire kaufman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:14:48 +0000

Interesting review of the Versailles / Koons confrontation where the strongest symbols of magnificience confronts themselves. I also had the same feeling in front of the flower bouquet in Marie Antoinette bedroom’s. You hardly guess that it’s an add on from the 20th century. I later remembered that the bouquet comes from a serie of Koons called Pornography…