EXCLUSIVE: KIRSTY WARK MEETS DAMIEN HIRST AND JEFF KOONS - BBC Newsnight

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  • čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
  • A major new art exhibition has just opened its doors in London. It brings together two greats of the art world, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. And Kirsty Wark got to join them for an exclusive sneak preview.
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Komentáře • 73

  • @jalepezo
    @jalepezo Před 4 lety +8

    this is a mixed blessing, i think, as these artists dupe rich folks, regular people can get good art at an affordable price

  • @brandobarrera9725
    @brandobarrera9725 Před 4 lety +5

    Just wanted to point out jeff absolutely evaded the last question with his classic " ill just slowly mention picabia , dali , picasso"

  • @alicedixon6604
    @alicedixon6604 Před 5 lety +29

    Even if you don't think it's art, you have to admit they are both brilliant businessmen.

  • @gm6101
    @gm6101 Před 7 lety +11

    i always say to myself their is a Da Vinci and a Michelangelo out there somewhere that nobody knows about because of how art is today, personally in my opinion these are two extremely successful business men.

  • @duudleDreamz
    @duudleDreamz Před 2 lety +4

    These guys make Wall St types look like innocent angels. Wonderful how they've been able to con all this money from the rich and gullible.

  • @duudleDreamz
    @duudleDreamz Před 2 lety +5

    Put anything into a gallery and it takes on another meaning. A white canvas with a red dot becomes a masterpiece and porn becomes higher art. I call it BS!

  • @fluxfotos22
    @fluxfotos22 Před 4 lety +2

    If l owned a giant hoover, l would sneak into Hirsts gallery, hoover all of the pieces up, then never let them out.

  • @helenesofiestenstadvold3409

    Absolutely amazing

  • @LondonDada
    @LondonDada Před 7 lety +4

    Check out the word TAWDRY in the OED..

  • @ccosmoss
    @ccosmoss Před 5 lety +3

    The other Haifisch is missing; Larry Gagosian.

  • @johnjohnson3709
    @johnjohnson3709 Před 5 lety

    I can understand Koons take on Duchamp and the ready made. I’m an artist and my one ready made is a very old elevator counter weight that I found laying in an alley in Nashville. I saw it and had to have it. .

    • @timh3972
      @timh3972 Před 5 lety +5

      You've been taken in by fake art and fake artists.

    • @dahongpalay7933
      @dahongpalay7933 Před 4 lety

      @@timh3972 LIKE :)

  • @SangiovanniOmar
    @SangiovanniOmar Před 5 lety +1

    ⭐️

  • @carissafisher7514
    @carissafisher7514 Před rokem

    He didn’t even design play-dough, he just admitted his son did....Voilà!

  • @TheArtofEngineering
    @TheArtofEngineering Před 2 lety +2

    I think both artists are as the media theorist McLuhan would have put it "sense antennae of the present time". They have tapped into the self obsessed, consumeristic aspect of the modern world, the need to be entertained in short order rather than via a thoughtful gaze. Koon's colourful highly reflective works (reflective in surface not evocation of cognation), are all about narcissism as when you look at them, you see something beautiful....yourself! But you have to hand it to them they have both created monumental projects that are at times technically very challenging!
    czcams.com/video/Opx3jfz9IhE/video.html&ab_channel=TheArtofEngineering

  • @WestYorkshireGREAT
    @WestYorkshireGREAT Před 8 lety +6

    You say art I say pointless extremely, expensive obsolete, products that I could probably find in the local scrap yard

  • @artbysvkart2624
    @artbysvkart2624 Před 5 lety

    Who’d buy that as art get it made

  • @jennyhughes4474
    @jennyhughes4474 Před 4 lety +1

    Jeff: 'dialogue... dialogue... dialogue...' Damien "I mean...' (but not as much)... I like Kirsty but maybe Paxman would've pushed them a bit more?

  • @EdwardOlive
    @EdwardOlive Před 5 lety +4

    anything looks amazing famous people do. if you're not famous it just looks stupid and nothing.
    if you aren't famous what you do is worthless and ignored. all you need to do is get famous and you will suddenly be considereda genius

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno Před 5 lety

      @Olive. That you again Damien?

  • @johnjohnson3709
    @johnjohnson3709 Před 5 lety

    Most of the pieces are so large who has bought them? And for that much money?

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen4375 Před 7 lety +7

    well, that was fun. i enjoy listening to intelligent people talk about things they like.

  • @cedricduguay8492
    @cedricduguay8492 Před 6 lety +11

    Can you say The Lion king or toy story movie are crap? Sure, they aren't silence of the lamb or the matrix, nor breaking bad .. but put yourself in a 3yrs old kid shoe, this expo would be insannnee! I give it to koon, Its just art in a children's language .. to me, its legit ... not something i would own, but something that worth a place in museum. These guys are pushing the boundaries of conceptual art, its not easy to do. Its not 'classic oil painting figurative artwork' i give you that, but its still something, your inner children wont get triggered in front of a Rembrandt. Its my way of seeing it, watch 'meet the rothschild's 'documentary and check out what kind of artwork they own ... i mean, it suits the persona

  • @daikayll1897
    @daikayll1897 Před 5 lety +4

    The great thing is DuChamp did his piece as a piss take about contempory /modern art. They obviously did'nt get the memo ! But hey ho. Its only money.

  • @dorodoro7348
    @dorodoro7348 Před 6 lety +1

    The France writer Michel Houellebecq wrote this "scene" in 2010. The painter Jed Martin in this novle painted a painting called "Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst Dividing the Art Markt"... Is he a prophet?

  • @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024
    @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024 Před 5 lety +1

    I can See myself standing in the middle of Them

  • @ashley-danielmackle4702
    @ashley-danielmackle4702 Před 8 lety +11

    Who's nose is browner . . .

  • @Hilariousity101
    @Hilariousity101 Před 4 lety +2

    Both of them make good, respectable work. The price of their work, however, is pretty absurd.

  • @bretttapia5979
    @bretttapia5979 Před 7 lety +4

    6:21 Crazy beautiful! I used to be torn about Koons (being American myself), but have made up my mind - excellent American innovator, influential genius,
    His colors, materials, precision, richness, shapes, and most of all, the metaphorical and conceptual ideas behind the pieces - takes
    my breath away at times.

    • @nrm55
      @nrm55 Před 5 lety +6

      That is hilarious.

    • @zacharytalbot-mason8829
      @zacharytalbot-mason8829 Před 5 lety +3

      ...sure

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno Před 5 lety +1

      @Brett. It fucking had to be 'Brett' didn't it? You silly little bedwetting arsewipe.

    • @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024
      @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024 Před 5 lety

      Critic My art PLEASE

    • @ownedbymykitty270
      @ownedbymykitty270 Před rokem

      You mean you bought into his sales picture about that monstrosity being influenced by Michaelangelo’s “Pieta”? That’s indeed very American of you. 😹

  • @BenjaminMackie71
    @BenjaminMackie71 Před 8 lety +63

    Couple of charlatans.

    • @amadort.8891
      @amadort.8891 Před 7 lety +5

      Charlatans and no artists! only salesmans. Stupid contemporary no art! for stupid snob people

    • @jootsy8886
      @jootsy8886 Před 5 lety +1

      Benjamin Mackie i like charlatans.

    • @sebastianmelmoth685
      @sebastianmelmoth685 Před 4 lety +1

      @@jootsy8886 It shows.

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl Před 4 lety

      Says who.

    • @kingk2405
      @kingk2405 Před 4 lety

      Maybe this is also a part of being an artist ...anyway the finishing of their work is perfect .

  • @timh3972
    @timh3972 Před 5 lety +8

    I wonder if they know that they're frauds

  • @Graham6762
    @Graham6762 Před 8 lety +5

    WTF? I don't get it.

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno Před 5 lety +3

    This is a lot like 2 old farts after Match Of The Day. Where's Greavesy?

  • @vincentvanvolkmer8746
    @vincentvanvolkmer8746 Před 5 lety +1

    Own a few works by Jeff, but prefer the older ones.

  • @daikayll1897
    @daikayll1897 Před 5 lety

    But it IS'NT your work Damo' son !!!???

  • @artvsmachine3703
    @artvsmachine3703 Před 4 měsíci

    When the 2 richest artists in the world get together and have a completely boring and meaningless conversation that reveals what frauds they are and how hard their art truly sucks.

  • @pizzassos
    @pizzassos Před 3 měsíci

    Great personalities nonetheless, artists in what the 99% of artists throughout history have failed-dying poor and alone: Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, etc., etc.

  • @sahernassar
    @sahernassar Před 6 lety

    Koons is so not eloquent compared to who he is

  • @michaelschulz6519
    @michaelschulz6519 Před 4 lety +1

    I hate this f***in art business...

  • @tritone3284
    @tritone3284 Před 4 lety +1

    Fake artists! Sad world.

  • @MrIrons-og3rg
    @MrIrons-og3rg Před 5 lety +3

    liars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @madArt1981
    @madArt1981 Před 5 lety +10

    Oh Lord almighty! WHEN IS THE EMPEROR GONNA REALIZE HE'S GOT NO CLOTHS ON! They are selling bottled air! They can't even draw. Zero talent. They hire others to build or just flat out by something and make some vague statement about the meaning of life! It's all bull crap!