Ushering in Banality

polychromed wood 
38 x 62 x 30 inches 
96.5 x 157.5 x 76.2 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
1988


Ushering in Banality

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Ushering in Banality

polychromed wood 
38 x 62 x 30 inches 
96.5 x 157.5 x 76.2 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
1988

Ushering in Banality

polychromed wood 
38 x 62 x 30 inches 
96.5 x 157.5 x 76.2 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
1988

EXHIBITED: 

The 80s. Anything Goes. Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria [October 10, 2021- February 13, 2022]

Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom [February 7 - June 9, 2019] (Edition 1)

Urs Fischer - False Friends. The Museum of Art and History of the city of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland [April 27 - July 17, 2016] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015] (AP)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27- October 19, 2014] (Edition 2)

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York [September 18-December 31, 2012]

 Jeff Koons: The Sculptor. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, Germany [June 20 - September 23, 2012] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland [May 13, 2012- October 2, 2012] (AP)

Holy Inspiration: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Art, Jeff Koons - Celebration. De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands [December 13, 2008 - April 19, 2009] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons. Château de Versailles, Versailles, France [October 9, 2008 - April 1, 2009] (AP)

Jeff Koons. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, [May 31 - September 21, 2008] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years. C&M Arts, New York, New York [April 7 - June 5, 2004] (Edition 2)

Monument to Now. DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [June 22 – December 31, 2004] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy [June 9 – September 15, 2003] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration. DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [December 15, 1999 – May 15, 2000] (Edition 1)

Everything That's Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection. Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece [January 20 - April 20, 1996] (Edition 1)

Jahresmuseum 1994. Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag, Austria [1994]

A Century In Sculpture. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands [1992]

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota [July 10 - October 3, 1993] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany [March 12 - April 18, 1993] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark [January 22 – February 28, 1993] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California [December 10, 1992 - February 7, 1993] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands [November 28, 1992 - January 3, 1993] (Edition 3)

Eliminating the Atlantic. DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [May 12 - June 16, 1990]

Banality. Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [December 3, 1988 - January 7, 1989]

Banality. Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York [November 19 - December 23, 1988]

Banality. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany [November 13 - November 30, 1988]

LITERATURE: 

Octavio Zaya, "Sobre Jeff Koons y los signos de nuestro tiempo," Balcon, March 1988, (ill. pp. 55-59)

Carnegie International, exh. cat., Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1988, (ill. p. 178)

Hunter Drohojowska, "Stop Making Sense," ARTnews, October 1989, (color ill. pp. 146-147)

Jean-Christophe Ammann, "Der Fall Jeff Koons / Jeff Koons: Case Study," Parkett no. 19 (March 1989), (ill. p. 57)

Diedrich Diederichsen, "I'll Buy That," Parkett no. 19 (1989), (ill. p. 76, installation view)

Nancy Spector, "Carnegie International," Contemporanea, January 1989, (color ill. p. 105)

Mit dem Fernrohr, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel, 1989, (ill. p. 1)

Dan Cameron, "Soho," Horn of Plenty, January 14 1989, (ill. p. 1)

Lawrence Chua, "Jeff Koons," Flash Art, January 1989, (color ill. p. 113)

Stuart Morgan, "Jeff Koons's Fun," Artscribe, March 1 1989, (color ill. p. 47)

Daniel Pinchbeck, "Jeff Koons," Splash, May 1989, (color ill. pp. 70-77)

"Jeff Koons - The Power of Seduction," Art & Design, January 1990 (ill. pp. 48-53)

Eva Karcher, "Die Absahner," Forbes, March 3, 1990, (ill. pp. 260-266)

Wolfgang Max Faust, "Kunst mit Kitsch," Art-Das Kunstmagazin, September 1 1990, (color ill. pp. 4 and 36)

The Jeff Koons Handbook, (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), (color ill. pp. 102-103)

Jeff Koons, (ed. Angelika Muthesius) Cologne 1992, (color ill. pp. 104-105)

David Bonetti, "Koons is Ushering in Banality," San Francisco Examiner, December 11 1992, (ill. p. D1)

"Fräls oss i vår banalitet," Konstnären, March 1991, (color ill. p. 4-5)

Peter Schjeldahl, "Rembrandt, Jeff Koons Ja Kaikki Muut," Taide, December 1 1990, (ill. pp. 22-25)

Nikolai B Forstbauer, "Kunst als Verfuhrung: Die Stuttgarter Staatsgalerie zeigt eine Werkschau von Jeff Koons," Stuttgarter Nachrichten, March 13 1993 (ill. cover)

Michael Corris, "Jeff Koons: In the Heat of Nowhere," Art and Text, May 1 1993, (color ill. p. 50)

“Kunst in Humor II,” Kunstforum International 1993, (ill. p. 110)

Lars Morell, "Jeff Koons Interview: The Political Value of Art," Skala June 1993, (ill. pp. 38-41)

Wim Beeren, Gudrun Inboden, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat., eds. Beye, Prof. Dr. P., Dr. W. A. Lbeeren and J. E. Sorensen, (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Stedelijk Museum, 1993), p. 55

Linda Weintraub, Arthur Danto, and Thomas McEvilley, Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s, (Hong Kong, 1996), (ill. p. 27)

Jeff Koons, exh. cat., ed. Eckhar Schneider, (Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), (ill. p. 19)

Jeff Koons: Easyfun–Etheral, exh. cat., Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2001, (color ill. p. 37)

Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 – 2002, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Bielefeld, 2002, (color ill. p. 23)

Shortcuts from the Dakis Joannou Collection. Exh. cat., Greece: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2002, (ill. p. 21)

Jessica Kerwin, "The Golden Greek", W Magazine, October 2004, (color ill. p. 364)

Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years. Exh. cat., New York: C&M Arts, 2004, (ill. pp. 67, 68-69 84)

Giancarlo Politi, “An Interview by the Readers of Flash Art,” Flash Art (no. 240) January – February 2005, (ill. p. 86)

Lucrécia Zappi, “O Rei do Neopop; o controvertido artista Americano Jeff Koons rejeita rótulo de kitsch,” Illustrada [Brazil], July 26 2006, (ill. cover)

Corinne Dolle, “Basel Marvels,” Whitewall (no. 3) 2006, p. 149

Kristen Swenson, “Louise Lawler Looks Back,” Art in America, December 2006, p. 119

Blacksquare [Russia] 2007, (color ill. p. 72)

Holy Inspiration: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Art, Jeff Koons – Celebration,  exh. cat., (Amsterdam: De Nieuwe Kerk, 2008), (color ill.)

Jeff Koons: Celebration, exh. cat., (Berlin: Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008), (color ill. pp. 39, 101)

Laetitia Cenac, "le roi Koons a Versailles," Madame Figaro, September 6 2008, (color ill. p. 142)

"Literatuurwetenschap, Studiewijzer," Open Universiteit [The Netherlands] 2008, (ill. p. 91)

Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth, Cologne 2008, (color ill. pp. 278-279, 280-281 (detail), 283)

Helianthe Bourdeaux-Martin, “Profile – Dominique Levy,” Whitewall Winter 2008, (color ill. p. 42)

Art:21 – Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins, New York: Art 21, Inc., 2009, (color ill. p. 98)

Brigitte Kölle and Stiftung Kunstsammlung, Es geht voran: Kunst der 80er. Eine Düsseldorfer Perspektive, (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2010), (color ill. p. 148)

Stedelijk Museum. First Aid Kit: Sculptures. Amsterdam, 2010, (color ill. p. 89)

“Jeff Koons: Winter Bears.” Christie’s A Private View January 2011, (color ill. p. 127)

Katy Siegel, Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, (London: Reaktion Books, 2011), (color ill. p. 161)

Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition. France: Centre Pompidou, 2014, p. 81

Julie Champion and Caroline Edde, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Album of the Exhibition, (Belgium: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 27

Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal, (Hove, England: Thames & Hudson, 2014). p. 137 [French Edition]

Luther Blissett, “La jouissance du retour en enfance,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, pp. 58-59

Jean-Paul Sartre, “The Disguise of Childhood,” Lapham's Quarterly Summer 2014, (ill. p. 98)

Remember Everything – 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, (Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2014), p. 14

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons, (Slovakia: Taschen, 2015), pp. 10, 44

Art + NYC: A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists, (New York: Museyon Inc, 2016, p. 97)

Sven Michaelsen, "Jeff Koons 'Voor Mij is Het Glas Altijd Vol," Volkskrant Magazine, no. 832 (May 27, 2017), pp. 14-20, cover

Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words, (Athens: Deste, 2019)

Naomi Rea, "Jeff Koons Wants to Teach Brits About Transcendence With His New Show at Oxford-and Tickets Are Selling Out Fast," Artnet News, February 6, 2019, online

Andrew Ffrench, "American art legend Jeff Koons visits Ashmolean Museum in Oxford," Oxford Mail (England), February 6, 2019, online

"Jeff Koons art on display at Ashmolean Oxford," BBC News (England), February 7, 2019, online

Will Gompertz, "Will Gompertz reviews Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford," BBC News (England), February 9, 2019

Tim Hughes, "Jeff Koons shines at Ashmolean Museum Oxford," Oxford Mail (England), February 14, 2019

Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019)

"Jeff Koons Quits Gagosian and Zwirner For Exclusive Pace Gallery Representation," Artlyst (UK), April 27, 2021

Heinz-Norbert Jocks, "Jeff Koons: Der Mythos Des Apollon," Kunstforum, January-February 2023, (color ill. p. 177)

Eileen Kinsella, "‘It Was Amazing to Use These Works to Tell a Story About Myself’: Adam Lindemann’s Collection Rakes in $32 Million in an Unusual Christie’s Auction," Artnet News, March 10, 2023

Karen K. Ho, "Christie's Sale of Items From Art Collector Adam Lindemann Makes $31.5 M," ARTnews, March 10, 2023