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Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Installation view
Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Installation view
Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Installation view
Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Jeff Koons
Gazing Ball (David Intervention of the Sabine Women), 2016
Oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum, 65 × 88 ¼ × 14 ¾ inches (165.1 × 224.2 × 37.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass), 2014–15
Oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum, 63 × 81 ¼ × 14 ¾ inches (160 × 206.4 × 37.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Ballerinas, 2010–14
Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 100 × 70 × 62 inches (254 × 177.8 × 157.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Jeff Koons
Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules), 2013
Plaster and glass, 128 ½ × 67 × 48 ⅝ inches (326.4 × 170 × 123.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Gazing Ball (Mailbox), 2013
Plaster and glass, 74 ¼ × 24 ⅜ × 41 ½ inches (188.6 × 61.9 × 105.4 cm)
© Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Balloon Rabbit (Magenta), 2005–10
Mirror–polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 168 × 107 × 80 ¾ inches (426.7 × 271.8 × 205.1 cm)
© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Jeff Koons
Bluebird Planter, 2010–16
Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, and live flowering plants, 82 ½ × 110 ¾ × 40 inches (209.6 × 281.3 × 101.6 cm), edition of 3 + 1 AP
© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
I like to think that when you leave the room, the art leaves the room. Art is about your own possibilities as a human being. It’s about your own excitement, your own potential, and what you can become. It affirms your existence.
—Jeff Koons
Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of recent and new work by Jeff Koons.
Making use of conceptual constructs including the ancient, the everyday, and the sublime, Koons creates luxurious icons and elaborate tableaux, which, beneath their captivating exteriors, engage the viewer in a metaphysical dialogue with cultural history.
Koons draws attention to the continuity of images as they pass through time. The Gazing Ball series is grounded in distinctive narratives and art-historical precedents—from ancient classical sculpture to Rubens and Manet. In each work, a blue mirrored, hand-blown glass gazing ball—a convention from eighteenth-century garden design—reflects its surroundings, uniting painting, sculpture, and architecture in order to multiply sensory experience. Balanced on the shoulder of Hercules, or introducing a dose of the surreal to the suburban harmony of a row of mailboxes, each gazing ball reactivates and intensifies familiar scenes, whether from legend or the everyday.
Catalyzed by Laws of Motion—a group exhibition pairing artworks from the 1980s on by Jeff Koons, Cady Noland, Rosemarie Trockel, and Jeff Wall with contemporary sculptures by Josh Kline and Anicka Yi—Wyatt Allgeier discusses the convergences and divergences in these artists’ practices with an eye to the economic worlds from which they spring.
The Fall 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Sinking (2019) by Nathaniel Mary Quinn on its cover.
Paul Goldberger tracks the evolution of Mitchell and Emily Rales’s Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland. Set amid 230 acres of pristine landscape and housing a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art, this graceful complex of pavilions, designed by architects Thomas Phifer and Partners, opened to the public in the fall of 2018.
Jenny Saville reveals the process behind her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles.
Learn more about Jeff Koons’s Easyfun-Ethereal series in this video featuring Rebecca Sternthal, one of the organizers behind the most recent exhibition of these works in New York.
Derek Blasberg speaks with Diane Brown, president and founder of RxART, and with contributing artists Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, and Jeff Koons about the transformative power of visual art.
Jeff Koons speaks with Alison McDonald and Maura Harty about his longstanding commitment to protecting the rights of children.
The FLAG Art Foundation hosted a conversation between Jeff Koons and FLAG founder Glenn Fuhrman, in which the two discuss the dichotomy between sexuality and childhood innocence in Koons’s oeuvre, remaking Made in Heaven with Lady Gaga, what drives Koons to make more work, and several works including Cat on a Clothesline (1994–2001) and Winter Bears (1988).
Derek Blasberg speaks with Scott Rothkopf, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, about the last thirty-six hours of the Jeff Koons retrospective, which also marked the end of the museum’s tenure in uptown Manhattan.
Jeff Koons’s flowering sculpture Split-Rocker, at once imposing and adorable, has cast a spell on New York City’s Rockefeller Center. Derek Blasberg interviews Matt Donham, Koons’s landscape designer on the project, to find out more.
Jeff Koons’s first, mammoth one-man show opens at the Whitney today, which is also the last show at the museum’s Madison Avenue location.
