New York this summer has the aroma from the artist Jeff Koons, first because him worked on installing the "Split-rocker" a 37 foot-tall, sculpture that depicts half toy pony and half toy horse, made it with more of 50,000 flowers plants, at the Rockefeller Center that coincide with their current retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, exhibit that will be open through October 19 of present year, comprising almost 150 objects dating from 1979 to the present, becoming the most comprehensive exhibit and the biggest devoted to an artist on this museum that even will be the last show before opening of the new location next year at the Meatpacking District.
Second because him promoted an H&M partnership that features their famed Balloon Dog sculpture on a new handbag that from today, July 17th at noon, under the motto: Fashion loves Art, will be available to public at the new H&M store located at 48th street with 5th avenue the new flagship store of 57,000 square feet, a six floor space the largest H&M store in the world.
And to complete Jeff Koons, recently was the "dish of the day" appeared naked in Vanity Fair magazine (Jeff Koons Is Back), an insteresting article written by Ingrid Sischy and photographed by Annie Leibovitz in his studio, in NYC.
AT THE EXHIBIT:
When visiting Koons's exhibition my vision went directly to the Balloon Dog sculpture, to me their most significant piece, the same one that on November 12 of 2013, was sold at the Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art Evening, about its high $ 55 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. I love this sculture, and I think that I could create a totally fashion collection, based only on this piece.
- In this picture Jeff Koons strike a pose in front of his work summit, the famous Balloon Dog (Orange).
THE ARTIST:
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist, widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era, known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces, an artist that throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication.
- His works have sold for substantial sums of money, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. On November 12, 2013, Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange) sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York for $58.4 million, above its high $55 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction.
FASHION LOVES ART:
- Fashion and Art met again on this Jeff Koons, Limited edition, Balloon Dog Handbag produced by the Swedish fashion brand H&M.
- The facade of largest H&M store around the world promoting the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
- American artist Jeff Koon's sculpture "Split-Rocker" at Rockefeller Center.
This exhibition will travels to the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris (November 26, 2014–April 27, 2015) and to the Guggenheim Bilbao (June 5–September 27, 2015).
Watch the following video of "Jeff Koons: A Retrospective" exhibit and How Art Enlightens Him.
- Jeff Koons: A Retrospective is organized by Scott Rothkopf, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Curator and Associate Director of Programs.
