the­guar­di­an.com: Jeff Ko­ons: “Peo­p­le re­spond to ba­nal things — they don’t ac­cept their own histo­ry”

jeff ko­ons über eine sei­ner plas­ti­ken:

The most fa­mous of the­se sculp­tures is Mi­cha­el Jack­son and Bubbles, a gro­tes­que­ly sen­ti­men­tal trin­ket that Ko­ons, along with the other items in the se­ries, finds “very beau­tiful, very se­duc­ti­ve. I find be­au­ty in the ac­cep­tance of cul­tu­ral histo­ry. I think what’s in­te­res­t­ing is to see them in mu­se­ums with other his­to­ri­cal ar­te­facts. I had an ex­hi­bi­ti­on in Frank­furt, Ger­ma­ny, in which Mi­cha­el Jack­son was with a sar­co­pha­gus from Egypt. It’s fan­ta­stic. It’s like an Egyp­ti­an pha­raoh. It’s a his­to­ri­cal con­text.”

das fin­de ich sehr wit­zig, weil mich das an ei­nen un­se­rer be­su­che im me­tro­po­li­tan mu­se­um of art er­in­nert. dort sah das kind die­sen sar­ko­phag und sag­te das kön­ne der sar­ko­phag von mi­cha­el jack­son sein.