was learned that this is the “Fait d’hiver” (1988), sculpture in which a pig wearing a barrel tied around his neck style St. Bernard dogs go to the rescue of a woman lying in the snow. The work was withdrawn “at the request of the lender,” the Pompidou, and after the French publicist Franck Davidovici filed a complaint considering that is a copy of the ad campaign that he designed in 1985 for the clothing brand “naphthalene Naf. “
Apparently, the publicist had filed a complaint for plagiarism against the artist and, according to some media, a bailiff came to the show last week to take photos of the work.
Also, the scene of porcelain sculpture Koons is very similar to the photo of the ad campaign, although there are some differences, such as the clothing of the woman or the fact that the work of the American artist there are two penguins they are not in the picture.
It is known that Koons sculpture exhibited at the Pompidou was around three million euros at auction in New York in 2007.
The president of the Paris museum, Alain Sebban, recalled in a statement that Koons had other allegations of plagiarism in his series “Banality”, in which the artist “is based on commercially purchased or objects appearing in images press. “
“Much of modern and contemporary art rests on the concept of the summons and even ownership. It is essential that museums can continue to realize these artistic movements,” said museum director.
The Koons retrospective at the Pompidou, the first of this caliber takes place in Europe on the American artist, is breaking records of public and it looks like it will surpass last year the center of contemporary art of the French capital devoted to Spanish Salvador Dalí, the most visited of its history with 840,000 viewers.
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