Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean
By: Sir Norman Rosenthal, Dr Alexander Sturgis
Contributors: Sturgis, Alexander, author; Ashmolean Museum
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781910807293
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: Curated by Koons himself, together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, this show features seventeen important works, fourteen of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. They span the artist's entire career and his most well-known series, including Equilibrium, Statuary, Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball sculptures and paintings. This exhibition will provoke a conversation between his creations and the history of art and ideas with which his work engages. Jeff Koons burst onto the contemporary art scene in the 1980s. He has been described as the most famous, important, subversive, controversial and expensive artist in the world. From his earliest works Koons has explored the 'ready-made' and 'appropriated image', using unadulterated found objects and creating painstaking replicas of ancient sculptures and Old Master paintings which almost defy belief in their craftsmanship and precision. Throughout his career Koons has pushed at the boundaries of contemporary art practice, stretching the limits of what is possible. Exhibition: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (07.02.-09.06.2019).
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 7 February - 8 June 2019.

Director's Foreword; interview with Jeff Koons (by Xa Sturgis); Jeff Koons and the Sheen and Shine of Time (Sir Norman Rosenthal); catalogue entries; Jeff Koon biography.