![Michael Jackson and Bubbles by Jeff Koons…
[This piece is] part of the Banality show, gold polychromed statue that plays up a false aura or allure; kitsch and the hyperreal; the sacred vs. the profane. Style: Koons commissioned Italian craftsmen to fabricate the sculpture for him; slick, shiny, seductive surfaceheightened for that hyperreal effect; turns the tradition of figurative sculpture into kitsch; false auras and the degraded sublime. Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society in which values are in question; object-lust, but objects emptied of soul, vanitas imagery and the hyperreal; after so many plastic surgeries Michael Jackson was already hyperreal even before Jeff Koons got to him; cult of celebrity. (via)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/eEpoSv5pDp6pri6tDAROCg2eo1_500.jpg)
Michael Jackson and Bubbles by Jeff Koons…
[This piece is] part of the Banality show, gold polychromed statue that plays up a false aura or allure; kitsch and the hyperreal; the sacred vs. the profane.
Style: Koons commissioned Italian craftsmen to fabricate the sculpture for him; slick, shiny, seductive surfaceheightened for that hyperreal effect; turns the tradition of figurative sculpture into kitsch; false auras and the degraded sublime.
Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society in which values are in question; object-lust, but objects emptied of soul, vanitas imagery and the hyperreal; after so many plastic surgeries Michael Jackson was already hyperreal even before Jeff Koons got to him; cult of celebrity. (via)
