Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture

Hardcover |24.8 cm × 33 cm | 42 pp

Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont | 2011 | 9782912303318

Text in English and French

Jef Koons started the Popeye series in 2002. The works in the series explore some of his main ideas and motifs, such as surreal combinations of objects, cartoon imagery, art-historical references and children’s toys. Through the Popeye series, Koons continues his investigations into these themes, casting inflatable toys a technique he began more than three decades ago with his legendary series of
Inflatables.

In the Popeye works, children’s pool toys are cast in aluminium and their surfaces are painted to bear an uncanny resemblance to the original objects. He uses cast inflatables to juxtapose replica readymades with unaltered readymade objects, such as chairs or trash cans.