Museum-Cinema: Cinematic Fridays at the Museum / Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait, 2023
Following the success of the series last year, Tel Aviv Museum of Art is once again presenting Cultural Fridays!
Almost every Friday, the finest films about art and culture will be screened, preceded by a short lecture by one of the Museum’s curators. This collaboration between the Museum, the EPOS International Festival of Art and Culture Films, the Third Ear, and the Docaviv Festival allows film aficionados to enjoy captivating and thought-provoking films from around the world, as well as a visit to exhibitions of master artists from Israel and abroad.
* Admission to the film includes a visit to the exhibitions at the Museum, subject to its opening hours
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Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait, 2023 | Dir. Pappi Corsicato, Italy, 80 minutes, English; Hebrew subtitles
Introduction: Shahar Molcho, Curator of Contemporary Art
No artist, it seems, is as revered and controversial as Jeff Koons. It is impossible to remain indifferent to his art, which appropriates everyday objects and forms and transforms them into unique, campy displays. Be it a balloon dog or porcelain statuettes of dancers that he inflates to huge dimensions, Koons’s works are part of the contemporary artistic canon, and have provocatively blurred the lines between “high” and “low” art. This film explores who Koons is and where he came from. Observing Koons at work, the director tries to enter his mind and inner world, linking his life story to his art (including the farm where he grew up, and his relationships with his six children from three different women)—in a bid to find out what drives Koons and shapes his artistic vision.
In collaboration with the EPOS Festival.