Pursuits
Jeff Koons Fashions Venus’s Buttocks in Shiny Steel
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Jeff Koons is reaching back into art history with his new series “Antiquity,” exploring the goddess of love in huge glossy metallic sculptures such as the magenta “Balloon Venus” and turquoise “Metallic Venus.”
They tower over ancient figures in Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus museum, where Koons’s work is interspersed among sculptures from antiquity to the 19th century. “Jeff Koons: The Painter and Sculptor” is showing at two venues in Germany’s banking capital. The paintings are at the Schirn Kunsthalle, where a screen protects minors from X-rated, hyper-real depictions of Koons and his porn-star ex-wife having sex.