How information is passed from the artist to the audience?
I wonder if each work can appeal to a different audience?
No reason why not.
Jeff Koons talls about how art works- “The spinage is the art”. Koons likes talk about transponders, things that are present with in the art work that connect with the audience and ’transmit’.
In his 2016 show in The ashmolean Oxford, Uk. He uses shiney ballls not unlike the spheres used by Yayo Kusama in her Narsisus Garden Piece.
Yayoi Kusama – Narcissus Garden, 1966–2018, Hayward Gallery, London, 2018, photo: Mark Blower/Southbank Centre
The audience sees themselves in these round shiny speres within the artwork and their posiition in relationship to the art work is changed. it is a curiosity provoking device. my children found it a cheep trick as they had seen it already in the Narcissus Garden and didnt like the fact Koons had had studio techs copy some great masters. They thought the point he was trying to make about the value of art history was valid but were drawn out of the show after 15 mins viewing by the show shop where litlle shiney object drew and enthralled them. I dragged them out of the shop reluctantly after about an hour, ladden with cheep copies post cards and little shiny momentos including a Koon’s balloon dog- I knew my dad would love it as a paperweight. He has almost no intrest in the cultural worth of art, he is only really interested in its economic value, on a aesthetic fround he doesent care if it is worth 2p or 2 million pounds, he knows what he likes, he would like this and would be amused by other peoples interest or suprise that he liked Koons work.
I found the context of the historical paintings and sculpture interesting but the art history pieces that Koons had used in context with the balls became secondary. Some where in all of this I lost the art pieces originators, thier indexicallity was lost and I stopped careing, may be it was because they were copied, or maybe it was the curation. At the moment I’m leaning towards bad curation, as I think the idea is sound and Kusama’s Narsissus garden was so successful that dont belive the materials are wrong ,could it be the way Koons presents it?
I like the question surrounding the value of art history, Koons is going for a very wide audience and had to make the message very clear, I found it clumbsy and I dont think the painting pieces worked as well as his stand alone shiny objects. The show shop was great.