Maybe it's because sports cars with electric motors are no longer as good a testosterone vehicle for men as roaring combustion engines, these discontinued models.

You have to accelerate with other technical equipment to prove that the zenith has not been passed - and fly into space.

Jeff Bezos in his peculiarly shaped rocket was only the vanguard, now male artists with extraterrestrial plans follow.

Jeff Koons, who for fun also likes to decorate cars in a trendy way, like a BMW model recently, has just announced that he soon wants to shoot sculptures he has created onto the moon and have them deposited there.

What they should look like is still in the stars, but it is certain that they will be connected to non-fungible tokens.

No wonder: Virtual certificates of ownership like in Koons' announced NFT premiere “Moon Phases” are investment engines with enormous thrust, ideal for capitalization.

However, the project should not appear calculatively aloof, the profits go to Doctors Without Borders, it is said.

Isn't something like this also possible without rocket soot and blockchain energy guzzling?

Be that as it may, Koons is by no means a pioneer when it comes to artistic moon landings.

Before him, Sacha Jafri, after all the painter of the largest painting in the world, expressed plans to beautify the satellites of the earth.

And on the moon there is said to have been a tile scrawled by Warhol, Oldenburg and Rauschenberg for a long time, an edition of which is also stored in the New York Museum of Modern Art.

The choice of motif certainly allows for Freudian interpretations.

The only work of art that is known for sure to be on the moon is a statuette created by the Belgian Paul Van Hoeydonck in 1971 to commemorate the astronaut who died in an accident.

As a humble memorial work, "Fallen Astronaut" was meant to remain hidden from the public, but it eventually became known.

Arrogance is far from this work.

It shows a little aluminum figure less than ten centimeters high in front of a plaque with his name: a lonely male, face down in the dust.