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Jeff Koons

Balloon Animals, Set II

2019

Limoges porcelain with chromatic metallic coating

34.9 × 39.2 × 20.9 cm

Ed. 164/999

Location: Switzerland

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About the artwork

This set of Balloon Animals by Jeff Koons features three of the artist's most famous animals. Made in porcelain with a reflective surface, these sculptures echo the canonical colors and vocabulary of the emblematic sculptures in the Celebration series. These include the Balloon Rabbit, the Balloon Monkey and the Balloon Swan, to which Jeff Koons devotes a large part of his production. The artist exploits popular subjects and forms that are recognizable to all, far removed from the elitist cultural clichés with which museums are filled. These fairground animals may appear innocent on the surface, but they soon reveal a definite sexual ambiguity.

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This set of Balloon Animals is emblematic of Jeff Koons' work. These sculptures have become icons of contemporary art. The artist worked with the famous Bernardaud workshops in Limoges to create this series.

About the artist

Jeff Koons, American artist born in 1955. Lives and works in New York (USA). With a father who was an interior decorator, Jeff Koons grew up in an artistic environment and studied at the Chicago School of Fine Arts. Alongside his work as a trader, he developed his artistic practice in a kitsch style borrowed from popular culture. Following in the footsteps of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, the objects Jeff Koons conjures up go beyond the serial stage to become veritable icons. Inflatable Rabbit is a prime example. Celebrated and collected worldwide, Jeff Koons exhibited at the Château de Versailles (France) in 2008 and at the Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Switzerland) in 2012. A retrospective of his work was organized in 2014 at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France).

“Art must be accessible to all. The art world uses taste as a form of segregation. I try to make work that everyone can enjoy, that even the simplest people can't imagine not being able to understand. I come from a very provincial background.”

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