The artist has certainly come to fame with his kitsch-art objects made of ceramics, such as "Pink Panther" or "Michael Jackson and Bubbles", one of the most famous pop singers of the 20th century in the form of a rococo sculpture, as shepherds once did, Shepherdesses and farm boys were reproduced. A mix of pop art and kitsch, which becomes a clever trick.
However, New York artist Jeff Koons sees himself as a painter. "I've always been a painter, and I think like a painter," he said in 1992. One of his first works, "The New Jeff Koons," a lightbox from 1980 with his children's photo, was understood as "mechanical" painting. He called his early sculptures, for example the series "New Hoover Celebrity", Hoover's vacuum cleaners and household appliances, "three-dimensional" painting.
Only after "Made in Heaven", the artist's large-format erotic pictures, did Koon's works also be painted by hand. She continued her painting in the painting series "Celebration", "Easyfun" and "Easyfun-Ethereal" in 1995. With them themes and motifs are perfected by artists such as Duchamp, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist or Warhol. Koons' are as montages of found, popular motifs.
In a thematic exhibition, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld shows Koons' two-dimensional work from 1980 to 2002. Under the title »Jeff Koons. The pictures are both photographs and prints as well as painted pictures on the program. The individual series, for example "the New", "Equilibrium", "Luxury and Degradation" and "Made in Heaven", are presented like the newer paintings in around thirty outstanding examples.
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Artur-Ladebeck-Straße 5
33602 Bielefeld