Acrobat 2003-09 and Triple Popeye 2008 and Popeye 2003 Jeff Koons: Popeye Series 2 July - 13 September 2009. The Serpentine Gallery, London. exhibition of the work of the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons, his first major exhibition in a public gallery in England. Working in thematic series since the early 1980s, Koons has explored notions of consumerism, taste, banality, childhood and sexuality. He is known for his meticulously fabricated works that draw on a variety of objects and images from American and consumer culture. For his exhibition at
Acrobat 2003-09 and Triple Popeye 2008 and Popeye 2003 Jeff Koons: Popeye Series 2 July - 13 September 2009. The Serpentine Gallery, London. exhibition of the work of the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons, his first major exhibition in a public gallery in England. Working in thematic series since the early 1980s, Koons has explored notions of consumerism, taste, banality, childhood and sexuality. He is known for his meticulously fabricated works that draw on a variety of objects and images from American and consumer culture. For his exhibition at the Gallery, Koons presents paintings and sculptures from his Popeye series, which he began in 2002. his works incorporate some of Koons's signature ideas and motifs, including surreal combinations of everyday objects, cartoon imagery, art-historical references and children's toys. The sculptures on show continue Koons's interest in casting inflatable toys. Those typically used by children in a swimming pool are cast in aluminium, their surfaces painted to bear an uncanny resemblance to the original objects. He juxtaposes these replica readymades with unaltered everyday objects, such as chairs or rubbish bins. The paintings are complex and layered compositions that combine disparate images both found and created by Koons, including images of the sculptures in the series. Featuring loans from both public and private collections, the exhibition also includes works that have never been shown publicly immediately recognisable figures of Popeye and Olive Oyl are central in the series and appear in several prominent works within the exhibition.
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Location: Jeff Koons: Popeye Series 2 July - 13 September 2009. The Serpentine Gallery, London.
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