Jeff Koons is the most American person I have ever seen - he embodies what the USA has become and is in our time. There is a materialistic sentimentality in his work - it is superficial but also charming and innocent. It is also dark and sinister, perverted and depraved. It is optimistic and magical - but always there is the fear of deception - that it is empty and devoid of substance or purpose. It's like a wonderful dream that upon later analysis reveals itself to be banal and meaningless. It plays on an impulsive and fleeting attraction to the inane.
@pestlund4 жыл бұрын
Well stated.. but at the end of the day it is dark, sinister, perverted and depraved exclusively.
@TorontoIam4 жыл бұрын
@@pestlund I agree. And the stock market was a perfect place to absorb that aspect of America, a microcosm of Americanisms in the say way as Hollywood in "The Day of the Locust".
@TorontoIam4 жыл бұрын
And yet many love Steven Speilberg's charming and innocent superficiality which I also find sinister.
@ztog5 жыл бұрын
There's something disquieting about Koon's eyes and the fleeting smile. Circling back to the money laundering issue was strange.
@mikeletaurus47282 жыл бұрын
I agree. To me, he has the eyes of a deranged person, or someone barely able to conceal rage.
@jordymustdie2 ай бұрын
@@mikeletaurus4728 yes
@hiroshiokudada6 жыл бұрын
I just can't trust his eyes. I don't know if he's sincere...he is so intelligent, that's for sure.
@dianal.clausen811811 ай бұрын
I looked closely at his eyes here and on other posts. I think it's a physical malfunction, especially with the right eye. One eye is moving separately from the other.
@leststoner6 ай бұрын
Because nothing is behind them, completely empty.
@jordymustdie2 ай бұрын
@@leststoner yes
@benvallentine71973 жыл бұрын
I’ve always been on the fence about Jeff Koons, and this video didn’t help sway me. I mean, the guy doesn’t actually make his own art these days. He has a team of people making it. The fact an artist has no reservations about his work selling for millions and knowing you didn’t get your hands dirty making it yourself, speaks volumes of a person. In Koons’ situation, and by the impression of this interview, he is a salesman. Whether he is purposely chasing the mighty dollar over putting his own stamp on his work, is yet to be determined for me. But as an abstract artist myself, I would never bother to try and produce a piece - whether a painting or sculpture- that I couldn’t actually make myself. I want people to enjoy and invest in my art because my hands actually created it. A piece of me is in my work.
@Talia_IceCreamPaints3 жыл бұрын
An artist skilled in business makes them no less of an artist.
@benvallentine71973 жыл бұрын
@@Talia_IceCreamPaints Where did I say that? I never said that. And would never say that, as I myself am using my business and brand building and marketing expertise to build my own art brand. If you read my comment properly you will see that I have a problem with him not creating his own artwork.
@CalGcastglassnz3 жыл бұрын
Just discovered his work today. How effin fun and inspiring
@ChrisCoombes7 жыл бұрын
He is calm and generous in his responses.
@theartcritic70207 жыл бұрын
He is not an Artist, he is a Service provider for Rich Investors who Avoid paying Taxes by calling it Art.
@davidlubotsky79082 жыл бұрын
Absolutely correct. That said, you are being kind as who his friends are reveal something worse.
@jordymustdie2 ай бұрын
Literally thank you
@lephilistin5 жыл бұрын
We're so used to artists bullshiting us that when an artist is sincere, it feels weird and we don't believe it. LOL
@TorontoIam4 жыл бұрын
LOL...so true. I remember a rock musician saying that all young rockers cared about was fame, money, and getting laid but they never told interviewers that. And authors always say that they don't care about fame and money, but you should hear them when their books don't sell!
@mrcsnbr4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but he's not being sincere tho
@97JAF3 жыл бұрын
@@mrcsnbr hahah why do you say that? Coming from someone who doesn’t really know much about him. Just a discussion in school
@mrcsnbr3 жыл бұрын
@@97JAF You're right, I haven't had the pleasure to talk with him, but his projects (and certainly their money value) does not match for me with the "spirit art thought" he's talking in here. Does it do for you?
@97JAF3 жыл бұрын
@@mrcsnbr I mean can't really say, why can't he like money as much as the art? Not everything has to be so black and white. Human nature is complex, maybe he's changed maybe he's always been like this but who are we to really judge?
@soulsurfseeker Жыл бұрын
such a nice and humble man
@victortavares76658 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for sure! Jeff Koons works are wonderful! There`s much to learn about what he says. Never negative. I see buddhism on his words.
@noobishbehavior7037 жыл бұрын
Victor Tavares I agree
@backtoemocovers5 жыл бұрын
So he’s inspired by going to Toys r Us?
@valerieevanier96324 жыл бұрын
A dialogue with philosophy? I'd say a major snow job. It's a balloon dog and someone got suckered in to paying 58 million in the hopes that no one else would realize it's just a balloon dog and could one day sell it at a profit. This is an example of turning the world of art into just another commodity market.
@gbengaadeku10 ай бұрын
Beautiful insight into Jeff's genius mind.
@777jones3 жыл бұрын
Almost got him to say "It's about meaninglessness. That is the subject"
@nevermindmyage Жыл бұрын
Right on Jeff!❤
@iwonkarts Жыл бұрын
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! Jeff Koons
@radupandele86966 жыл бұрын
what a great talk
@ysengrimus7 жыл бұрын
A visual art genius. The voice of an era.
@limbotvperu68673 жыл бұрын
not really
@fishbrehth8 жыл бұрын
Koons' "vision": make a giant stainless steel balloon animal. wow, so unbelievably complicated
@TheEmpress17688 жыл бұрын
maybe you just haven't seen the art thoroughly
@fishbrehth8 жыл бұрын
Merlinhoot Boodangy i wouldn't comment on the scope of an artist's work unless i had familiarized myself with it in person enough to have a full opinion that at least at first attempts to see it in the artists eyes as something worthy of my seeing it. but i appreciate your cynicism
@kalvinlebsack23516 жыл бұрын
Well somebody is sure making an effort to be provocative :p
@evastaitz99117 жыл бұрын
jeff koons is a work of art! don't try to interpet his artistry.
@irinachelyapova32854 жыл бұрын
Thank you! People are just jealous . Everything he is creating is perfect reflection of our time.
@leststoner6 ай бұрын
BS, his art is not about society, the 1% is not society. He makes investment art. He makes objects not art, his real art is sales.
@GeneralSalt4 жыл бұрын
I use a reflective surface to have a discourse w philosophy, because philosophy is a reflective process. 🤣
@gregdahlen43758 жыл бұрын
wonder if he lives a rich man life, big house, nice car, etc. they both have nice teeth whitening jobs
@dollydolly35965 жыл бұрын
Yes Nice car Nice house Nice kids Nice wife
@petemansfield82985 жыл бұрын
Margaret Keane + Thomas Kinkade = Jeff Koons
@jennyhughes44745 жыл бұрын
'Dialogue with...' repeat repeat repeat...
@turbobyultra37432 жыл бұрын
6:24 lmao . Love her
@dollydolly35965 жыл бұрын
Shock value is short lived ... he says. Have we seen his MADE IN HEVEN SERIES here? Guilt and shock are not long lived? Why?
@jmdza8 жыл бұрын
his eye
@pestlund4 жыл бұрын
Jose Jeffery Mendoza very dark. Truly dark
@agentpurple2843 Жыл бұрын
Evil
@patsaulnois46919 жыл бұрын
"Doha is bringing people together, is about inclusion". Tell that to the slaves who die everyday building this city where they will never be allowed to live. Further, he's no artist, he's a business man. He doesn't create the sculptures with his hands, he draw a sketch and pay people to do it for him and redo it and redo it until he's satisfied by the result. An impostor.
@TheEmpress17688 жыл бұрын
that's what artists in the Renaissance did, yet their art is considered art
@MrNckissfan8 жыл бұрын
Don't even think about putting him in the same league as those in the Renaissance. Koons is nothing more than a glorified art director who plagiarizes from existing pieces of art.
@TheEmpress17688 жыл бұрын
+MrNckissfan So? it's art after all.
@MrNckissfan8 жыл бұрын
John Orozco You know what I mean. If you don't then I guess you don't know much about the profession in general. He's a guy with no talent...only ideas. He then pays assistants to do all the work...including sketches.
@TheEmpress17688 жыл бұрын
+MrNckissfan I've known he has had assistants. almost 130. You do know in the Renaissance, artists had assistants help them make their paintings as well, right?
@moviebuff40027 жыл бұрын
I subscribed
@sahernassar8 жыл бұрын
guess he is the least eloquent among other contemporaries
@oblisk4206 жыл бұрын
he just wants to have a seat at the table but no matter how much information he accumulates about art he's vapid banal and constrained in his thinking seeing him in person is as uncanny valley as any one of his humanoid works
@SyedShoaibMahmood8 жыл бұрын
He's a buyer or curator at best, an artist? Nope. :(
@gregdahlen43758 жыл бұрын
i can't see how his art will be less intimidating to lower class viewers than any other
@irinachelyapova32854 жыл бұрын
Yes, most people don't like to see truth about themself.
@gloobnord5 жыл бұрын
This guy is so disingenuous. If he's into art for the reasons he gives why doesn't he donate (instead of sell to corporations that may or may not display it) his stuff to cities so everyone can see it? He certainly has enough money by now. How much do you need? I guess he's a IS a commodity's trader (read capitalist) who's main interest is the making of money, not really in the realm of art. Although I suppose some would consider the making of money an art.
@carolineclark20133 жыл бұрын
It’s a way for these elites to exchange large amounts of money ( the real thing being sold is children) without raising suspicion