‘How does the artist transform the ordinary into the extraordinary?’ and ‘How does the art work play tricks on your mind?’ are two of the questions on the activity sheet for schoolchildren visiting the exhibition of Jeff Koons (‘the most subversive artist alive today’).
Brief answers would include the sheer scale and the finish of the exhibits. Small figurines are transformed to become life sized with perfect polished surfaces that stimulate and intrigue by being familiar and different at the same time.
What starts as kitsch (a term Koons dislikes as he feels it denigrates a popular, mass-appeal form of art) is reworked as sculpture of classical …
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