NEW YORK -- Artist Jeff Koons on Friday unveiled an enormous inflatable blonde, silver-limbed ballerina in one of the busiest plazas in New York. He took inspiration from a small porcelain figurine of a seated ballerina, which he then enlarged into a stainless steel sculpture before thinking that an inflatable version would have a "tremendous" impact. The use of inflatable nylon, colored metallic, is a play on Koons's famous Balloon Dogs that appear to be inflatable but are actually stainless steel. "Every time we take a deep breath and expand our lungs, we are inflatable and that's kind of a symbol of optimism," Koons explained. The 62-year-old artist told AFP on Friday that the Donald Trump presidency, which has much of liberal America up in arms, was a great time to make art.

Source: The China Post May 12, 2017 20:26 UTC