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Koons Prefigures Porn, Pt. 2

August 25, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Private dealers Luxembourg & Dayan are mounting a show of Nine works from Jeff Koons’s Made in Heaven series which was first seen 20 years ago at the Venice Biennale:

On October 6th, and in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the original Venice presentation of this landmark series, Luxembourg & Dayan will unveil “Jeff Koons: Made in Heaven Paintings,” an exhibition of nine major canvases and one glass sculpture from the artist’s most renowned body of work. The exhibition will remain on view at the gallery through January 21, 2011. […]

If Jeff Koons’ work over the past four decades has been devoted to the aestheticization of contemporary desire, “Made in Heaven” represents a moment of apotheosis. The paintings of the series reference art from the Baroque and Rococo periods – Bernini’s expressions of physical ecstasy as portal to the realm of the sublime, and the carefully staged, allusive love scenes of Fragonard and Boucher that titillated audiences of the day – and also draw upon the breakthroughs of such early modern painters as Courbet and Manet.

PRESS RELEASE KOONS HEAVEN PAINTINGS

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