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Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean

7 February-9 June 2019

Ashmolean Museum

Oxford

His work “Gaze Ball” series adds a large blue glass ball to famous traditional paintings. This ball was popularized by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and is now more often used as a garden decoration. Jeff Koons said that the “Gaze Ball" represents the vast cosmos and the intimacy of the moment at the same time. "The presence of the gaze ball makes these paintings more powerful. If you take the gaze ball away, then they no longer have this power. These works are masterpieces in their time, but in this era, because of such gaze balls, they can have their own unique strength. ”  By recreating a work in this way, Jeff Koons brought traditional paintings into the public eye. In addition to re-creation, he also intentionally mentioned the reorganization of time and space in this series of works, which resonates closely with my research interest. 

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