Best interview editing ever at Art:21. In voiceover, Jeff Koons blabs about moral responsibility and a liking for ready-made objects as his many assistants make his objects for him. “Some people think that my work is just about money,” whines one of the world’s wealthiest artists.
Meanwhile, the elves serenely dab, tape and chisel in a whirl about his workshop.
As the Koonsies lug giant lobsters, the artist croons that the best “art is impractical,” leaning off a well-elevated wooden stand. According to him, you can’t make more than one sculture or painting a year unless you got a herd of assistants, or as he refers to them, the “family.”
“I like to work with people because I don’t want to be in a room by myself,” he pleads. Because he can wipe his own inflatable crab. They’re just good company, is all.
Takashi Murakami does this same shit, have his assistants do all his work. I think they are both hacks but surely Koons is the worst offender. I'd love to show him my art project. It involves me shoving dog shit down his throat.
I would like to submit that Kehinde Wiley is the worst offender.
This practice sucks but at least they oversee the operation. KZehinde Wiley has outsourced his whole operation to Vietnam. He fired his whole studio because it's easier and cheaper out there. Instructions are sent off and the paintings arrive finished back in the States.
YOU SUCK Kehinde Wiley!
All those oh so cool rapper paintings? Complete outsourced BS!
I think Art:21 is losing its touch.
do you think hitchcock painted his own sets and operated the camera? michelangelo didn't paint the sistine chapel by himself either.
How irrelevant Jeff Koons is. Especially now. He has never even produced his own (bad, derivative) work.
Now that Jackie, Jaquie or whateverthehellthespellingdujour is, has made herself way too public, I think we all realize what we have suspected for many years. Mr. Koons is a complete naked emperor hack, who has demonstrated even more bad judgment by hiring a dummy like Jackie/Jaqueie/Jaqueline. If she was 180 and homely and incredibly talented would she have been hired? BINGO!!! At best she is a renderer who has great tits. For now. Mr. Koons your ass is hanging out and it's not a pretty site.
Actually Michelangelo DID paint the Sistine by himself. Read up Dude, and maybe even go and see some of the stuff you talk about. Rodin got away with murder, quite literally. So shut up.
Koons is a complete hack.