Jeff Koons Versailles

The Château de Versailles presents the exhibition Jeff Koons Versailles in the Royal Apartments and in the gardens of the Castle. The show presents seventeen Jeff Koons works, including his most significant works from the Eighties to these days. The project focuses on the close relationship between each work and the space surrounding it. The works have been selected specifically for Les grands appartements at the piano nobile, composed by Les appartements du Roi (The Kings apartments) and Les appartements de la Reine (The Queens apartments), which formed a suite of several rooms en enfilade. These large apartments are the most prestigious and important spaces of the Castle, since they were the official halls of the Sun King, composed as one of the richest expression of art and architecture. In this video: impressions from the press preview with statements by Jeff Koons. The exhibition runs until December 14, 2008. Versailles / France, September 10, 2008. Video by Christophe Ecoffet.

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[spd13062]

Koons is the most vapid, vain person to curse the art world with his presence. The more he talks about art, the the more it all sounds like hot air bs. I've never seen an interesting piece by him, or his staff. To place his stuff here was a really bad idea.

[CatZula]

So deeply, deeply boring. If Koon's piece aren't a critique (and he has openly stated so for many years) they really are just a massive celebration of kitsch. Don't ask me why he continues to enjoy the prices and reputation he enjoys. About the only thing he ever did that was gutsy was the Made in Heaven Series...but then that makes Rocco Siffredi look like some sort of genius. Just dumb. No bright ideas at all.

[NLOVESMJ]

Awwwwww.MICHAEL JACKSON 4EVER.

[BushidopeMMXI]

jeff koons is the shit.

[sarkisartist]

I find it funny that art critics aim to put Koons across as having democratized art, making "low culture" into "high culture". The comments here show that despite how PR and the press try to manipulate people, a lot of people are actually fed up by being treated as though we're idiots and receptive to the manipulative irony of the "art" industry today.

[ritter89]

@MsZoeHankins i'm all for profit but this guy has no skills or original ideas. whenever I see Jeff Koons I think of Dunning-Kruger effect and the excellent article "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties In Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Koons is the poster child for that theory

[MsZoeHankins]

I'll be brave and say, I actually LIKE Jeff Koons' art. His body of work is quite compelling if you're sensitive enough to examine his inquiries into the explicit and implicit aspects of celebrity and materiality. Jealous, small-minded people continue to dismiss artists who make profit from their practice (e.g. Warhol), and it degrades the importance of their art. Not all artists have to be dirt-poor martyrs.

[NewRisingSong]

Jeff Koons is a catchy name, combine this with a lot of money and you got his art.

[arfy754]

Wow, what interesting camera angles

[ElvenStarlight]

ALL OF MY HATE

[diorVon]

This guy is literally a fucking maniac.

Are you kidding me? What does a blow up lobster from walmart, or a helium balloon animal have to do with history or transcending time???

This is not art, the man is fucking crazy.

[talesdauphin]

He WILL rot in hell for this, won't he?