The Centre Pompidou Paris withdrew today a work of the retrospective dedicated to American artist Jeff Koons after a French publicist ensure that a plagiarism of one of your ads.
This is sculpture Fait d’hiver (1988), in which a pig wearing a barrel tied around his neck style St. Bernard dogs go to the aid 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The work was withdrawn “at the request of the lender,” the Pompidou, and after the French publicist Franck Davidovici filed a complaint considering that is a copy of the ad campaign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 “.
The publicist had filed a complaint for plagiarism against the artist and, according to some media, a bailiff came last week to the sample to take photos of the work.
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 who are not in the picture .
Koons sculpture exhibited at the Pompidou was around three million euros at auction in New York in 2007.
The president of the Parisian museum, Alain Sebban, recalled in a statement that Koons has had other complaints of plagiarism in his series “Banality”, in which the artist “is based on commercially purchased or images in the press objects”.
“Much of mod ern 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’s contemporary art center of the capital French Spanish dedicated to Salvador Dalí, the most visited of its history with 840,000 viewers.
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