Those art guys can get real bitches
PUSSSYKATT
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AN art-world feud is heating up between Mark Kostabi and Jeff Koons.
The battle is being fought online via Kostabi's advice column, "Ask Mark
Kostabi," on artnet.com.
When one questioner suggested Kostabi wasn't taken seriously in the art world,
he replied that his work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the
Metropolitan Mueum and the Guggenheim.
Then Koons sent a snarky reply of his own.
"With regards to being in the collections of MoMA, the Met, and the Guggenheim,
I'm not sure that having your work in their storage counts as being taken
seriously," Koons sniped.
Kostabi shot back, "I am aware that you have work in MoMA's storage too, and
perhaps that's why you feel 'not sure' whether we are being taken seriously.
Don't worry, if we weren't being taken seriously, then I'm sure MoMA wouldn't
spend one extra penny for the storage space."
He closes by adding, "Jeff, my column is an advice column. Next time you reach
out for advice from me, please pose your questions more explicitly so I don't
have to read between the lines of what seems to be a snotty little statement."
In response to a question about Koons, Kostabi also posted the following: "As
for Koons, a big difference is that before I started using assistants, I
already made and exhibited thousands of artworks executed by my own hands,
whereas Koons started with fabricators from the get-go. This might account for
some of his hostility and jealousy towards me because he never learned how to
make a great artwork by himself."
Kostabi says Koons has "publicly confessed that he cannot sculpt personally,
but that he can paint because he was trained as a painter. This isn't the
smartest thing to admit because his sculptures are widely considered better
than his paintings." The entire exchange will be posted on Artnet.com later
this week.
Kostabi tells PAGE SIX that he is preparing for a physical confrontation with
his nemesis. Koons often visits Rome, where Kostabi now lives, to see Ludwig,
the son he had with his ex, Italian porn star/politician Ilona (Cicciolina)
Staller.
In the early '90s Koons made a series of graphic sculptures of himself and
Cicciolina conceiving the lad.
"I'm ready to take him on," says Kostabi, who's been working out at the gym
every day to get in fighting form.
A 1988 Koons sculpture entitled "Woman in Tub" is being auctioned off as part
of a Christie's New York sale of contemporary art on May 16 and 17.
The piece, one of five Koons works on offer, is expected to fetch between
$800,000 and $1.2 million. No Kostabis are being sold.
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