Jeff KOONS
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Reflections of Takashi Murakami at Le Château de Versailles by Richard T Scott
There seems to be a trend among contemporary pop artists lately: attempting to inseminate their image into the past – perhaps, with the goal of somehow giving some historical relevance to their work which extends beyond vapid, desultory references to pop culture and 20th century Art history. Perhaps they are subconsciously aware that if you remove all the context, their work has little, if anything to say on its own. Thus, because it only embodies what is projected upon it, speaks only to its own time. It is nothing more than a manifestation of the particular biases and fashions of its day and when these biases and fashions change,…
- Andy WARHOL, art, contemporary art, Damien HIRST, fine art, Hedi Ferjani, Jeff KOONS, lower east side, modern art
Is Contemporary Art the place where meaning goes to die? Ask Hedi Ferjani
According to many post-modern thinker’s, meaning is no longer fixed, static or contingent. In Hedi Ferjani’s work we see the iconoclast’s lament for the loss of meaning with these grave stones; however, he juxtaposes what is absent by making the referent present….interesting work… Andy WARHOL, Damien HIRST, Jeff KOONS….who’s next? Hedi Ferjani? Thanks to Mark M Whelan The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin