Gigantic balloon dogs, rows of vacuum cleaners, the colourful, the commonplace, the shiny and ephemeral – American artist Jeff Koons makes ‘poor’ objects into something rich people desire. As his retrospective travels from the Whitney Museum in New York to the Pompidou 
in Paris, and now the Guggenheim in Bilbao, imagine… examines the controversial artist.
Raised by his furniture-maker father and seamstress mother, and spending his childhood selling wrapping paper and sweets door-to-door for pocket money, Koons took up an apprenticeship at the cutting edge Arts Institute in Chicago and embarked on a career chalking up the highest prices ever recorded for modern art.
This film looks at just who Jeff Koons is and what it is that makes his work so different. Will his balloons float above the art market bubble and hold their place in the history of art?
“This Imagine was, as it turned out, unexpectedly fascinating – I mean, Koons himself is both seductive and repulsive, dumb and clever. He embodies his own art …”Fisun Güner, The Arts Desk
Fisun Güner, The Arts Desk
“Makes you question what lies below the shiny surface”The Telegraph
The Telegraph
AWARDS
- Artecinema 2015, Opening Gala
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| Producer/Director | Jill Nicholls |
| Film Editor | Allen Charlton |
| Cinematography | Mark Molesworth |