{"id":16121,"date":"2017-05-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icon-vrai.loc\/2017\/05\/11\/the-gazing-ball-series-by-jeff-koons-reconsiders-the-classics\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:08:18","slug":"the-gazing-ball-series-by-jeff-koons-reconsiders-the-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icon-icon.com\/en\/the-gazing-ball-series-by-jeff-koons-reconsiders-the-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gazing Ball Series by Jeff Koons Reconsiders the Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The Gazing Ball imagined by artist Jeff Koons is a crystal ball to go back in time. This ball\u2019s meticulous design reveals the arrival of design into the daily lives of families in American suburbs starting in the 60s. It\u2019s there that Jeff Koons discovered it for the first time &#8211; the artist retained the kitsch aesthetics from his childhood spent in rural Pennsylvania. The blue ball is borrowed from the exterior decorations of the artist\u2019s home state, where they were often found in yards. In 2012, Koons made it a globe reflecting blown glass in a blue so deep that it causes one to reflect.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Delicately placed on strategic points for the eye, on the bodies of ancient statues that are identically reproduced or at the heart of paintings that are no less iconic, the Gazing Ball is made to think of the heritage of humanity\u2019s high points. The very first major exhibit of the Gazing Ball in the David Zwirner Gallery in New York turned the art world upside down. By notably collaborating with casting workshops in the Louvre and the Staatliche Mussen in Berlin, Koons surrounded himself with casting and stone-working experts capable of copying great masterpieces. This glass ball gives an artistic dimension to the copies: on the shoulders of Hercules, on Silenus carrying the young Dionysus, or on the knee of the Faun Barberini, these Gazing Balls reflect their environment, as it\u2019s the visitor\u2019s eye that make it a work of art.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Koons says: \u201cI\u2019ve been interested in \u2019spectatorship\u2019 for a while, a concept that\u2019s owed to Austrian art historian Alois Rigel. Approximately it means that when an artist paints a painting or produces a sculpture, his work isn\u2019t finished before a spectator, an audience, reacts to it.\u201d On the pieces in the exhibit, he adds: \u201cWhen you look at the sculptures, you can see yourself inside the reflective globes. Artists sometimes include mirrors in their work, but they don\u2019t think of the overall ensemble so the audience finds themselves reflected on the arm or the chest of a statue.\u201d This is when preconceived notions of the artistic field started falling, withs Jeff Koons making the audience actively participate in their primary function: that of designating what art is by accepting to see it as such.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gazing Ball imagined by artist Jeff Koons is a crystal ball to go back in time. 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