Jeff Koons at the Serpentine
"Popeye Series"
Venue: Serpentine Gallery, London
2 July - 13 september 2009
RCA Society members went to the Serpentine Gallery's opening of Jeff Koon's first major exhibition in a public gallery in England.
A number of members had gathered at the RCA during the afternoon to see the work of this year's crop of design graduates before going on to the Jeff Koons private view at the Serpentine Gallery in the evening. The combination of the two exhibitions was an interesting experience. Koons' work, which is often maligned with the excesses of the '80's and referred to as "giant reproductions of banal objects", took on a level of seriousness in this exhibition - a position that Koons expresses about his work. It is serious, it's art...! A Popeye event...