For a guy whose work is so fantastical—giant topiaries, stainless-steel balloon animals—the artist says he’s all about realism. Blake Gopnik on Koons as perfectionist
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Matthias Willi
Jeff Koons takes knotted balloon dogs and enlarges them in stainless steel. He cross-breeds a rocking horse and rocking dinosaur, and then realizes the hybrid as a house-high topiary.