Artist Bio
"Jeff
Koons emerged in the 1980s as an innovative sculptor of exquisitely
crafted objects, which quickly became icons of art history, the primary
example of which is Rabbit, 1986. Cast in highly polished
stainless steel from an inflatable Easter bunny novelty, the sculpture’s
mirror-like surfaces have the eerie effect of including the viewer in
their cool reflections.
The Broad’s Koons collection is unrivaled globally and holds
representative work from each stage of the artist’s diverse and
ever-changing career. In its celebration of consumer goods and its
questioning of the notion of “good taste,” Koons’s art has been
critically received as an ironic comment on the decadence of the 1980s
and of capitalist culture. Koons himself, however, posits a less cynical
view, citing his relationship to his young son, transcendence, and the
eternal resonance of beauty as motivating factors for his art."- https://www.thebroad.org/art/jeff-koons