Jeff Koons, thought of the Michelangelo Pieta when he created the iconic 1988 Michael Jackson and Bubbles Porcelain Sculpture, showing the Pop icon with his chimpanzee pet.
Jeff Koons was interviewed by Farah Nayeri of Bloomberg on the occasion of his first UK Public Exhibition of the Popeye Series, at the Serpentine Gallery until September 13, 2009.
Jeff Koons said he "wanted to give the viewer a sense of a spiritual authority and intended the sculpture as a way of paying homage to the greatness".
“The type of adulation, the type of support that’s given to pop artists -- this was the contemporary type of support that I thought that Christ would have received in his time,” explains Koons, who says he executed the sculpture in a Renaissance style, its triangular shape reminiscent of Michelangelo’s Pieta.
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