Jeff Koons: Banality Series Platter Bernard Chauveau Edition portraiture

portraiture

so too did the guidelines

while its retina reflects a series of words extracted from local signs

created with twenty-two colors on Somerset white satin 300gsm paper

gestural works poked at preconceptions of taste and connoisseurship

Jeff Koons: Banality Series Platter Bernard Chauveau Edition portraitureDesigned by Jeff Koons in collaboration with Bernardaud, this limited edition oval platter features a reproduction of his sculpture Ushering in Banality (1988). To realize this polychromed wood work, Koons commissioned professional carvers from Oberammergau, a Bavarian village that has produced religious statuary for centuries. Koons states, With Ushering in Banality I felt that God was on my side and that I really didnt care what anybody thought of