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JEFF KOONS: 1979-1999

JEFF KOONS, The Dynasty on 34th Street, 1985

JEFF KOONS

The Dynasty on 34th Street

1985

framed Nike poster

edition 1 from an edition of 2

45½ x 31½ in.   115.6 x 80 cm. 

© Jeff Koons


傑夫 · 昆斯

《第34街的王朝》

1985 年作

耐克海報裝框

版數:1/2

45½ x 31½ 英寸,115.6 x 80 公分 

© Jeff Koons

Transcript


The Dynasty on 34th Street, 1985. When I’m working on a series of works, I’m open to everything. I expose myself to everything. So if I’m walking down the street, I’m looking at aquariums, I’m looking at basketballs, I’m looking at posters, and I start to realize how these different objects and images are interconnected—how there’s a narrative taking place. So in the Equilibrium series, I saw the tanks as an ultimate state of being that the viewer would look at and feel that philosophical state as what they would desire—total equilibrium. And then they would look, and they would see a tool for equilibrium. And a tool for equilibrium could be an Aqualung, and it’s in bronze. And if you would put it on, it would take you under. And at the same time they would look and they would see the sirens. And these basketball players would be there like sirens saying, “Go for it. Look, I've done it. You can achieve it too. Go for it.” And Dynasty on 34th Street’s a little daring—there’s a little bit of, “Come on, man, you can do it.” There’s a little bit of a street kind of threat to it, somewhat, “But like, come on, go for it.” I always had a special spot for Dynasty on 34th Street with these kids that really want to achieve something, giving that little bit of threat: “Come on, you can do it.”

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《第34街的王朝》,1985年。當我在創作一個系列時,我對一切事物都持開放態度。我會讓自己接觸一切。所以如果我在街上走著,倘若我在看水缸,同時在看籃球,亦在看海報,並開始意識到這些不同的物品和圖像是如何相互關聯,如何有一個敘事正在發展。在《平衡》系列中,我將水缸視為一種觀者所看到並感受到的最終存在狀態,一種完全的平衡。然後觀者會看到一個達至平衡的工具,可能是一個青銅製的《水肺》,如果你戴上它,它會帶你下沉。然後觀者會看到人魚。這些籃球選手就像人魚一樣,在說:「去吧。看,我做到了,你也可以的。去吧!」《第34街的王朝》有點挑戰性的味道,有一種「來吧,你做到的」的感覺。它有點像街頭的威脅,「來吧,去吧」的挑戰。我個人一直對《第34街的王朝》有著特別的感情,這些孩子們真的想要實現一些東西,他們的表情帶有一點挑機的感覺:「來吧,你做到的。」

Jeff Koons on The Dynasty on 34th Street

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