Joachim Pissarro interviews Jeff Koons at The Brooklyn Rail:
Rail: I’d like to spin the thread of porcelain and ceramic as a material culture that runs throughout your works.
Koons: My grandparents had porcelain figurines. When I was a kid, I would play with them and I would be so excited. It was titillation, really. And the excitement that comes from this, that excitement is equal to any experience anybody else could have, even looking at a Michelangelo. You can’t really define how one is of more value, because as a young child you don’t know those hierarchies, but you do feel excitement, stimulation. I like that porcelain is a material that was democratized and became ceramic. So even my family could have porcelain when you know this came originally from the emperor’s kitchen. So the concept of porcelain—or ceramic—to me they are very close. I don’t make a distinction.
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