His hands-off approach to the production of his famous balloon dogs and stainless steel rabbits has been criticised in the past but Jeff Koons, the world’s most expensive artist, has drawn a red-line: “I wouldn’t – for my own base work – be looking at AI to be developing my work.”.
Jeff Koons on why he has drawn a red line on AI in art: ‘I don’t want to be lazy’ World’s most expensive artist, who is exhibiting at the Alhambra in Granada, sees his work as embedded in biology.
Koons’s reliance on teams of craftspeople and cutting-edge technology in the making of his pieces prompted the Collector magazine last year to ask: “Is Jeff Koons an actual artist?”.
It would appear to be a heaven-sent development for Koons, who was speaking to the Guardian at the launch of Reflections, a joint exhibition of his works alongside those of Pablo Picasso at the Alhambra in Granada.
Five years ago, the American’s highly mirror-polished stainless steel Rabbit, made by intensive machine-work to imitate the look and material of a balloon, sold for a record $91m (£72.5m).
