Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey (Orange) / Sculpture / signed, numbered / edition 999

Year: 2019
Format: 24,9 x 20,9 x 39,2 cm / 9.4 x 7.9 x 15.4 inch
Material: Porcelain
Method: Sculpture with chrome coat
Edition: 999
Other: signed, numbered on COA, manufacturer: Bernardaud, Limoges, France

Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey Orange

Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey (Orange) / Sculpture / signed, numbered / edition 999

Year: 2019
Format: 24,9 x 20,9 x 39,2 cm / 9.4 x 7.9 x 15.4 inch
Material: Porcelain
Method: Sculpture with chrome coat
Edition: 999
Other: signed, numbered on COA, manufacturer: Bernardaud, Limoges, France

Jeff Koons – Balloon Monkey (Orange)

Year: 2019
Format: 24,9 x 20,9 x 39,2 cm / 9.4 x 7.9 x 15.4 inch
Material: Porcelain
Method: Sculpture with chrome coat
Edition: 999
Other: signed, numbered on COA, manufacturer: Bernardaud, Limoges, France

Jeff Koons - Balloon Monkey

Balloon Monkey (Orange) by Jeff Koons is based on a balloon twisted into the shape of a monkey. The original Balloon Monkey (2006-2013), which took seven years to create, is 12.5 meters long and weighs nearly five tons. The monumental sculpture is made of highly polished stainless steel and covered with a transparent color coating in five unique versions: blue, magenta, orange, red and yellow. Throughout his career, Jeff Koons has been interested in cultural themes that appeal to a broad audience. It is therefore only logical that the monkey is a recurring motif in his work. The artist’s most famous work is the 1988 life-size porcelain artwork Michael Jackson and Bubbles. Humans’ close relationship to primates has fascinated artists throughout history, serving as allegorical figures for universal themes such as the pursuit of pleasure, sexuality, and innocence. Balloon Monkey explores these themes, evident by the playful form in tandem with the swelling tail, which is undoubtedly a phallic reference. Koons fuses these typically contradictory concepts by reducing the subject to its most essential form, purifying otherwise contradictory sensations for the viewer to achieve the sublime state of transcendence through self-acceptance.

Between Art and Kitsch / Jeff Koons

Born in Philadelphia in 1955, Koons wanted one thing above all: to become rich and famous. After studying art, he worked at the Museum of Modern Art and as a broker in New York for a few years starting in 1976, so that he could finance his works himself. Soon he created the first of his legendary Balloon Animals, and the shooting star of Neo-Pop Art was on the rise. The colorful 1980s came just at the right time for Koons, who cites Marcel Duchamps, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and of course Andy Warhol as the most important artists who inspired him. In his works, Jeff Koons processes everyday objects that often have a strong connection to childhood. He imitates them, alienates them, exaggerates them, sexualizes them, or groups them with advertisements, photographs, or comics to create large-scale collages. Since the auction of the stainless steel sculpture Rabbit in 2019, Jeff Koons is once more the most expensive living artist.

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Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey (Orange) / Sculpture / signed, numbered / edition 999


Year: 2019
Format: 24,9 x 20,9 x 39,2 cm / 9.4 x 7.9 x 15.4 inch
Material:Porcelain
Method:Sculpture with chrome coat
Edition:999
Other:signed, numbered on COA, manufacturer: Bernardaud, Limoges, France
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