“The budget has no meaning” Koons – The Universal

 Bilbao. – It is the most famous living artist in the world-his Balloon Dog (Orange) was auctioned for 58.4 million dollars in 2013-, but Jeff Koons says without hesitation that for him economic “has no meaning” and what interests It is to capture the energy of life and become “the best artist.”
 

 

 It is hoped that the fact to be considered a media artist is only a reflection “of power” of his work and that means that the things he has done “has been helpful to people to the extent that has allowed them that their lives are better. ”
 

 

 So philosophical shown the American artist, who has traveled to Bilbao (northern Spain) to inaugurate the first major retrospective of his career, reaching the Guggenheim after his display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
 

 

 At the gates of the Guggenheim, Koons met Puppy the iconic dog covered in flowers that since its inauguration monitors the museum. A “nice” for the artist, who thanked the museum to look after his work as well. Reunion “It’s fantastic, I liked reconnect with him,” said the author of Tulips , one of the emblematic works of the museum collection, or pieces that has sex with his ex-wife, actress Italian porn Cicciolina.
 

 

 Koons wanted to erase that image of media artist, strategist, businessman and always did his best smile and with statements like that to him what matters is “to be the best artist” and fight “to get it and share it with others, to see how people’s lives are transformed through art. ”
 

 

 When asked if alongside Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami enjoys a passport to glory he insists he is an artist. “Well, more than an artist, a human being who has always tried to get as big of himself” at what he does.
 

 

 From childhood “as not yet understood how art could transform human beings, and participated in it. When I realized how important it is, the possibilities involved, I got into a relationship with the world of Renaissance guy, “he says.
 

 

 This relationship, he says, has allowed him to engage in dialogue in various fields and disciplines such as psychology, philosophy and aesthetics. “I boundaries were expanded. The glory comes through experience and try to be the best version of yourself and share with others. ”
 

 

 Exalted and reviled, Koons exhibition is a guaranteed success, as we saw in the previous two venues of this retrospective, whose assembly in the Guggenheim liked especially.
 

 

 “I think the works are very elegant. People can appreciate different times and different periods clearly “he says.