BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

61 Modem Women’s Milano Modem Women’s Paris Spring-Summer 2006 Covers by JEFF KOONS 2005 CONTEMPORARY ARTIST Born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), Jeff Koons is considered as one of the most important contemporary artists. His creative spirit symbolizes an encounter between the concepts of Marcel Duchamp , the media aura of Andy Warhol, art crafts and popular imager y. “ Deal with things that anyone can create a link with .” Consistent with this principle, the iconography he uses becomes a true catalog of popular culture, not only American but also global. By modeling archetypes of this culture, he confronts us with this flow of images in which we have bathed since childhood. Jeff Koons is an artist whose creation encompasses all artistic technique @ in- stallation, photography, painting, sculpture on all materials (wood, marble, glass, stainless steel), up to the computer-aided creation. Jeff Koons proved himself to the public of contemporary art in 1985 with a first exhibition in a gallery in New York. In 1986 he realized Inflatable Rabbit, this stainless steel rabbit considered today as an emblematic work representative of the end of the 20th century .