How many times have we seen in the children's party clowns horrible depressing that make balloon animals? This practice is not unique to our country, is practiced by almost everyone. An inflatable dog animals is the model of one of the most famous sculptures of Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog , made in 1996. Jeff Koons did not invent the image copied it to these clowns and reproduced in permanent materials as "a parody of the banal" in his factory studio with 50 assistants at 600 Broadway in New York and manufacturer architectural and artistic objects Carlson & ; Co . It has several versions in different sizes and materials, a small, porcelain made 2300 copies and sold between 7.500 to 12,000 dollars each on eBay , the large steel is made to order and costs 20 million dollars. It is an idea and repeatedly exploited to the fullest.
Koons, who can not draw or sculpt, says of himself "I am a person of ideas, not get involved in physical production of my objects, I have no skills, so I hired the best to do so." This means that at least the clowns of the parties do make their dogs inflatables. Koons does not just "think" and its marketing machine sells. So far nothing new within the contemporary art creation, if it were not for Koons claims the copyright of all dogs of balloons that are made in the market. In a gallery of San Francisco's Park Life, attorneys for Koons forced the owners to pick up some dogs that were selling pasta. These dogs manufactured in Canada are distributed 300 points of sale. The gallery said shocked, "is fuckin nuts, Jeff Koons Owns all likeness of balloon dogs ? No, it is not. This is an insane abuse of a man who is an artist, is a seller of expensive kitsch objects.
In that plan, Gabriel Orozco is the owner of the rights of all the shoe boxes in the world. Warhol Enterprises will have to charge royalties to Campbell's Soup Company , a Coca-Cola and all that in their very limited language have used their logo to make works of "protest and reflections on the consumer society. " Seafood restaurants pay to Hirst to decorate with stuffed sharks or vats of formaldehyde. Disney paid for the use of Mickey Mouse ad nauseum in millions of pieces "of imperialism." Urgent that all artists make an association or union and to record the collective authorship of all trash generated by the planet. Gabriel Kuri required royalties on all the trees in the city that are covered in chewed gum. Those who install urinals to pay royalties to the heirs of Duchamp, including artists who have copied the piece. The descendants of John Cage that have the copyright for silence and Piero Manzoni's shit in all its forms.
In this art to steal or "ownership" is one of the aesthetic premises that the denostación of authorship is one of the pillars of rhetoric, an artist Copyright prompted by an idea that is created and copied to the top of cynicism. But the cynics get far because the cowards do not lose the opportunity to shut up. The amazing thing is that Koons does not learn to forget is part of the arrogance. Already in 1992, photographer Art Rogers sued for stealing a photo printed on a postcard and that Koons used as a model for sculpture String of Puppies, which had three copies and sold at $ 350 000 each. The jury sided with the photographer and Koons had to pay. His defense was the curatorial text, said that ownership is part of his aesthetic and the card used to ridicule.
is, he does something that can be used deliberately did not invent, but if someone else takes the part, and uses it, so if authorship is theft. Without the value of the original author, the imitator, the copier, the thief, demanding the right to copy, and sends lawyers to fight for something he stole earlier. The work is not making it, is who knows pervert the copyright laws, this is the prevailing rhetoric.
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