Ushering in Banality, 1988 - Stedelijk Museum

***Ushering in Banality***, skillfully carved by hand from limewood, was produced in a series of three. It was the flagship display at the *Banality* exhibition in New York, Chicago, and Cologne in 1988, where Jeff Koons showed huge figures made of porcelain and painted wood, and in which distinctions between art and kitsch were blurred. Koons maintained that he was not being cynical and merely wanted to make modern art more alluring. Art lovers were left struggling with the question of whether this was provocation, irony, sincerity, or all three. https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collection/20767-jeff-koons-ushering-in-banality http://www.jeffkoons.com/artwork/banality/ushering-in-banality Captured with Samsung Note 8, processed with Recap Photo, using 41 photos taken in the museum.