| Artist: | Jeff Koons |
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| Title: | Aqualung | |
| Date: | 1985 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Postmodernism | |
| Movement: | Neo-Pop Art | |
| Materials: | bronze | |
| Subject: part of the Equilibrium show; a floating device--an aqualung--cast in bronze, which will force it to sink; the problems of sustaining one's equilibrium, how to keep afloat and to keep breathing in an object-lust world that continually weighs one down. Style: uses materials as metaphors for the bigger issue of maintaining equilibrium in terms of moral values; works the paradox of a floating device cast in a heavy material (bronze), which will force it to sink; My work is very involved with the tragedy of unachievable states of being. Part of a larger installation including aquarium tanks in which basketballs are suspended and posters of basketball stars selling out for commercial endorsements (see Dr. Dunkenstein). Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society in which it is difficult to maintain on's moral equilibrium. | ||
