"Michael Jackson and Bubbles" Jeff Koons 1988 Porcelain sculpture 106,7 cm x 179,1cm x 82,6cm The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica (USA) "It is 1988 and Michael Jackson sits surrounded by golden flowers, in golden clothes, hugging close to him his pet chimpanzee, Bubbles. People walk around him and gawp. They don't know if they should laugh or feel creeped out or simply admire an innocent homage to genius. (...) (...) The very night after our interview, the death of Michael Jackson is announced. On the Friday I ask the sculptor of Michael Jackson and Bubbles for his comment. "We have lost a great artist." But look at it. White faced and hugging his chimpanzee, Jackson is not portrayed as the talented song-and-dance man everyone seems to want to remember, but an icon of the banal. (...)" (in http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jun/30/jeff-koons-exhibition-serpentine)

joaquimfontes 8 Mar 2015

Loving the Com Truise right now, and this especially.

BunchOfSteve 18 Mar 2014

Makes my hair stand on end. But not sure if its just because when I see the title I'm already excited to think of BoC's 84 Pontiac Dream.

dbbd 28 Jun 2013