Christ and the Lamb

Having turned to art after a brief stint as a Wall Street commodities trader, Jeff Koons creates beautifully crafted and often controversial sculptures. An elaborate, Rococostyle mirror, Christ and the Lambis also a visual puzzle: its frame shapes the mirror surface into the figure of the infant Jesus playing with a lamb, taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1508; Musée du Louvre, Paris). Viewers thus see their own image superimposed on the body of the Christ Child. Koons has said, “Anything that reflects has a kind of spiritual transcendence because it involves the viewer. It acknowledges your presence. Every time you move, the reflection changes; it always acknowledges you.”

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Gegevens

In dezelfde zaal · Gallery 295, Art Institute of Chicago

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Jim Beam - Barrel Car

Woman in Tub

Bourgeois Bust- Jeff and Ilona

New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker

Untitled (Soccerball)

Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Two Dr. J. Silver Series, One Wilson Supershot)

Baccarat Crystal Set

Pink Panther

Mr. Pointy, 2011

Still, 1994

Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile, 1992-93

Bourgeois Bust- Jeff and Ilona, 1991

Woman in Tub, 1988

Woman III, 1982

Untitled #90, 1981

Untitled #92, 1981