A sculptor's lawsuit against Jeff Koons over the originality of the mega-artist's most infamous work can proceed, a U.S. judge rules:
during a press preview of"Jeff Koons: A Retrospective" at the Whitney Museum of American Art June 24, 2014.
Hayden, a set and prop designer for films and live performances, says he made the sculpture in 1988 as an artwork on which Cicciolina, Koons’s former wife and the artist’s co-star in the pornographic “Made in Heaven” series, “could perform sexually explicit scenes, both live and on camera,” according to court papers.
Hayden’s lawyers identify three images from the group as “infringing works”: a 1989 lithograph initially commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art that was displayed as a billboard in downtown New York City; a polychromed wood sculpture featuring a three-dimensional replica of the original work; and an oil-on-canvas painting titledThe works were featured in museum and gallery exhibitions around the world and were sold to collectors, the complaint states, even though Koons neither...
It’s difficult to imagine how Hayden went more than three decades without spotting either the high-profile series or his original artwork, especially since, as the court papers acknowledged, the works were shown worldwide and caused a sensation when first displayed at Koons’ then gallery, Sonnabend.
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