![]() The series presented vacuum cleaners in clear display cases and here, two upright Hoovers are housed in a tall plexiglass case, lit from below with fluorescent lights. He debuted some of the series in 1980, garnering his first public attention, but continued to work on it throughout the 1980s. This installation forms part of Koons' first series of artworks, The New, which he started creating in 1979 when he was still an unknown artist and working as a Wall Street commodities broker. Like the French artist, who exhibited found items including a urinal, bottle rack, and bicycle wheel as art, Koons takes everyday objects and artistically re-interprets them. Clear parallels can also be drawn with Marcel Duchamp, the inventor of the readymade.
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