[100], In 2013 Koons created the sculpture Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules), which was inspired by the Farnese Hercules. [96], For the season 2007/2008 in the Vienna State Opera Jeff Koons designed the large-scale picture (176 sqm) Geisha as part of the exhibition series "Safety Curtain", conceived by museum in progress. Il a créé un studio ressemblant à une usine dans un loft à SoHo à l'angle de Houston Street et de Broadway à New York, composé de plus de trente assistants. Jeffrey Koons, né le 21 janvier 1955 à York (Pennsylvanie, États-Unis), est un plasticien américain, sculpteur de style kitsch néo-pop. Shannon Rodgers reconnected with Koons in 1995. En 2014, Jeff Koons est classé par le magazine ArtReview dans le top 10 du « Power 100 » (classement classant les cent personnalités les plus influentes du monde de l'art contemporain). The triple image of the Hulk figure recalls Andy Warhol's silk-screen printing Triple Elvis (1963), regarding both the multiplication and the posture of the Hulk figure. [45][48][49] The Whitney Museum also exhibited several of the photographs on canvas in their 2014 retrospective. Discover Jeff Koons's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. [188], Koons donated $50,000 to Correct the Record, a Super PAC which supported Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign in June 2016. Une œuvre du plasticien américain Jeff Koons, un moulage en acier d'un lapin gonflable, a battu mercredi 15 … Et si l'angoisse disparaît, tout est si proche, tout est disponible, et c'est juste ce petit peu de confiance en soi, ou la confiance, que les gens doivent approfondir. [109][110], Koons was the artist named to design the seventeenth in the series of BMW "Art Cars". The result is that the work, owned by Foundazione Prada, cannot be displayed in France and the museum and artist cannot display photographic reproductions online (without a penalty of €600 per day). [97] Koons worked with American pop performer Lady Gaga on her 2013 studio album Artpop, including the creation of its cover artwork featuring a sculpture he made of Lady Gaga. It has crinkled ears like an inflatable toy, a spherical head, and bulbous appendages, yet its face is The equally detailed backdrops include an Arcadian vision. The drawing greeted all who visited Google's main page on April 30, 2008, and May 1, 2008. 70-72. Pour certains, «Il est l'un des rares à avoir su dégager l'essentiel des courants avant-gardistes du siècle, notamment le Pop art» mais c'est surtout un artiste cultivant le kitsch très apprécié par des milliardaires nouveau-riches mais beaucoup moins par la critique. [91], The three-dimensional works Hulk (Friends) and Hulks (Bell) (both 2004–2012) feature apparently inflatable Incredible Hulks that actually weigh almost a ton each and are made of bronze and wood. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least two record auction prices for a work by a living artist: $58.4 million for Balloon Dog (Orange) in 2013[1] and $91.1 million for Rabbit in 2019. Alors étudiant, il arrive à rencontrer Salvador Dalí, qu'il admire[3]. [13], Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era. [2 Francesco Bonami: Jeff Koons. Koons a mis au point un système de couleurs par numéros, afin que chacun de ses assistants puisse exécuter ses toiles et sculptures comme si elles avaient été réalisées d'une seule main. Paintings and sculptures from the Popeye series, which Koons began in 2002, feature the cartoon figures of Popeye and Olive Oyl. [citation needed], The Rabbit has since returned to its original soft form, and many times larger at more than 50 feet high, taken to the air. narozený : Jeffrey Koons ( ) 21.ledna 1955 (věk 66) York , Pensylvánie , USA . L’œuvre intitulée Puppy a été vendue 29 765 000 € selon Paris-Match. Verry Rare Signed Limited Edition Neck Tie by Jeff Koons. The Painter at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt focussed primarily on the artist's development as a painter, while in the show Jeff Koons. It also featured in his second retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in 2008. During this time, he dyed his hair red and often wore a pencil mustache, after Salvador Dalí. In 1997, the parisian Galerie Jerome de Noirmont organized his first solo show in Europe. Jeff Koons Lays Off Dozens in a Move Toward a Decentralized, Automated Studio Practice", "Powers, John 'I Was Jeff Koons's Studio Serf' ", Artist Rooms Jeff Koons, March 19 − July 3, 2011, "Jeff Koons explains his Nuit Blanche Rabbit Balloon", "Jeff Koons Artwork: Jim Beam - Baggage Car", "Greed Plus Glitz, With a Dollop of Innocence", Jeff Koons: Made in Heaven, Paintings, October 6, 2010 - January 6, 2011, "Tumescent Follies, Inflated Money, and Kitschy Sex", "How Much Is That Doggy in the Courtyard? It was interpreted as seduction by simulation because it was faked luxury. [86], Hulk Elvis is a work series by Jeff Koons created between 2004 and 2014. Sold with the COA (Certificate of authenticity) from Edition Studio and the original package (sealed) serigraph. These playful sculptures are now among the most iconic works of contemporary art. The Rabbit is the most popular artwork create by Koons in 1986 and exhibited in all around the most foundation & museum of the world. [182] In 2008, Staller filed suit against Koons for failure to pay child support. Francesco Bonami: Jeff Koons. Il s'est engagé auprès du Centre international pour les enfants disparus et exploités et a permis la création du Koons Family Institute of International Law and Policy (ICMEC). Jeff Koons artiste américain né en 1955 à York en Pennsylvanie. Il a retrouvé sa fille Shannon, conçue lorsqu'il faisait ses études et qui avait été confiée à l'adoption. It is the most expensive work sold by a living artist at auction, being sold for $91.1 million in May 2019. Another example for Koons' early work is The Equilibrium Series (1983), consisting of one to three basketballs floating in distilled water, a project the artist had researched with the help of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. "[54] After a summer with his parents in Sarasota, Florida, where he briefly worked as a political canvasser, Koons returned to New York and found a new career as a commodities broker, first at Clayton Brokerage Company and then at Smith Barney. Angelika Muthesius: Jeff Koons. The images range from abstract landscapes to elements of American iconography (trains, horses, carriages) and comprise characters such as the Hulk or an inflatable plastic monkey. Koons started creating sculptures using inflatable toys in the 1970s. [78] In 2001, Koons undertook a series of paintings, Easyfun-Ethereal, using a collage approach that combined bikinis, food, and landscapes painted under his supervision by assistants. He moved the high-tech stone workshop from New Jersey to a larger, 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) space in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Koons work is produced using a method known as art fabrication. Later additions to the series include Balloon Swan (2004–2011), an 11.5-foot (3.5-meter), stainless-steel bird,[74] Balloon Rabbit (2005–2010), and Balloon Monkey, all for which children's party favors are reconceived as mesmerizing monumental forms. [16] Until 2019, Koons had a 1,500 m2 (16,000 sq ft) studio factory near the old Hudson rail yards[17] in Chelsea and employed upwards of 90 to 120[17] assistants to produce his work. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. On October 13, 2009, the giant metallic monochrome color rabbit used during the 2007 Macy's Thanksgiving day parade[25] was put on display for Nuit Blanche in the Eaton Centre in Toronto. Il a dit à propos de l'art : « Je pense que l'art vous emmène en dehors de vous-même, vous dépasse. He had a minor role in the 2008 film Milk playing state assemblyman Art Agnos. His artwork was applied to a race-spec E92 BMW M3, and revealed to the public at The Pompidou Centre in Paris on 2 June 2010. Critic Amy Dempsey described his Balloon Dog as "an awesome presence... a massive durable monument". Starting from 1978 he worked on his Inflatables series, consisting of inflatable flowers and a rabbit of various heights and colours, positioned along with mirrors. In addition, the museum and artist were ordered to jointly pay €190,000 and the book company €14,000. [131], Also in 2012, Jeff Koons. To create these sculptures, the toys get a layer of coating after finding the right shape. 토끼 (Rabbit)는 제프 쿤스가 1986년에 창작한 스테인레스 스틸 조각이다. Kiepenkerl : statue de métal faite en 1987. 제프 쿤스(Jeff Koons, 1955년 1월 21일 ~ )는 미국의 미술가이다. Standing on a central square in Münster, the statue retained a certain cultural power as a nostalgic symbol of the past. Apr. [93], The series’ paintings are collages made of several photoshop layers. Koons v prosinci 2014 . [164], Hughes placed Koons' work just above that of Seward Johnson and was quoted in a New York Times article as having stated that comparing their careers was "like debating the merits of dog excrement versus cat excrement". [114] The album cover depicts a nude sculpture of Gaga made by Koons behind a blue ball sculpture, and pieces of other art works in the background such as Birth of Venus painted by Sandro Botticelli, which inspired Gaga's image through the new era, including in her music video for "Applause" and the performance of the song at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. [16], In 1989 the Whitney Museum and its guest curator Marvin Heiferman asked Koons to make an artwork about the media on a billboard[6] for the show "Image World: Art and Media Culture". Three years later, one of these sold at Sotheby's New York for US$5.6 million. Then a hard copy is made and sent to the foundry to be cast in aluminium. Today Koons works closely with Gagosian and with Sonnabend. [83] The artist will also make use of inflatable animals again, this time in combination with ladders, trashcans and fences. [129], In July 2009, Koons had his first major solo show in London, at the Serpentine Gallery. Jeff Koons [dʒɛf kuːnz] (born January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania) is an American artist.. Koons uses evidence of consumer culture as starting points and alienates or imitates them. [90] The landscape paintings often have explicit or implicit sexual content. Jeff Koons artiste américain né en 1955 à York en Pennsylvanie. Robert Mnuchin bought Jeff Koons' "Rabbit" sculpture at a Christie's auction this week for a record breaking $91.1 million. Joan Gibbons: Art and Advertising. [169], Koons has been sued several times for copyright infringement over his use of pre-existing images, the original works of others, in his work. [79] The series eventually expanded to twenty-four paintings.[78]. Sa production est très hétéroclite, et est constamment entre deux tensions, traite toujours de deux opposés, ce qui rend ses œuvres à la fois kitsch et uniques, populaires et érudites, faciles et en même temps complexes. Rabbit (Koons) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rabbit is a 1986 stainless steel sculpture by Jeff Koons. [34] During the production process, the foundry where the piece was being made wanted to knock the ceramic shell off too soon, which resulted in the piece being bent and deformed. He has caused controversy by the elevation of unashamed kitsch into the high-art arena, exploiting more throwaway subjects than, for example, Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. [13] The series culminated in 1988 with Michael Jackson and Bubbles, a series of three life-size gold-leaf plated porcelain statues of the sitting singer cuddling Bubbles, his pet chimpanzee. Hans Werner Holzwarth: Jeff Koons. [135], In 2019 an exhibition called Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean was held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom. Ses débuts sont pourtant compliqués et, à court d'argent, il retourne chez ses parents, qui vivent désormais en Floride, et travaille un temps comme démarcheur politique. [82] One such item is a stainless steel reproduction of a mass-market PVC Popeye figurine. [102], A drawing similar to his Tulip Balloons was placed on the front page of the Internet search engine Google. He is another of those who serve the tacky rich". Jeff Koons' 'Rabbit' Sells For $91 Million, A New Record For A Living Artist Robert Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of the U.S. Treasury secretary, bought the … Jeff Koons - Jeff Koons. Jeffrey Koons is an American artist, who is known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects, such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finished surfaces. [185] In 1992, they had a son, Ludwig. [citation needed] From his limited-edition 2010 Tulip designs for Kiehl's Crème de Corps, a portion of the proceeds went to the Koons Family Institute, an initiative of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Some of the pieces are still being fabricated. Taking a readymade inflatable rabbit, Koons cast the object in highly polished stainless steel, resulting in Rabbit (1986), one of his most famous artworks. [92], At the center of each scene in the Antiquity paintings (2009–2013) is a famous ancient or classical sculpture, meticulously rendered in oil paint and scaled to the same size as the sculptures. [40] Koons also issued Signature Plate, an edition for Parkett magazine, with a photographic decal in colors on a porcelain plate with gold-plated rim. [85] The Popeye sculpture was purchased by billionaire Steve Wynn for $28 million and it is displayed outside the casino entrance at Wynn's Encore Boston Harbor hotel and casino property. [173] This decision was upheld in 2021 on appeal. Much of his work also was influenced by artists working in Chicago during his study at the Art Institute, including Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, and H. C. Jeff Koons, one of a number of American artists to emerge in the 1980s with an aesthetic devoted to the decade’s pervasive consumer culture. Koons first exhibited these pieces in the window of the New Museum in New York in 1980. Jeff Koons se fait connaître au milieu des années 1980 au sein d'une génération d'artistes qui ont exploré le sens de l'art à une époque où les médias étaient saturés. Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (York, 21 de janeiro de 1955) é um artista e escultor estadunidense. At the museum, the machines were displayed as if in a showroom, and oriented around a central red fluorescent lightbox with just the words "The New" written on it as if it were announcing some new concept or marketing brand.[22]. [41] Arts journalist Arifa Akbar reported for The Independent that in "an era when artists were not regarded as 'stars', Koons went to great lengths to cultivate his public persona by employing an image consultant". [137] He received an honoroary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. [178] In 2007, Koons, along with his wife Justine, founded the ICMEC Koons Family Institute on International Law and Policy. En 2015, le photographe Mitchel Gray a déposé plainte pour plagiat d’une de ses affiches publicitaires[17]. In the summer of 2000, the statue traveled to New York City for a temporary exhibition at Rockefeller Center. [72] In 1999, his 1988 "Pink Panther" sculpture sold at auction for US$1.8 million, and he returned to the Sonnabend gallery. Il se fait alors connaître grâce à une imagerie qui lui est propre : populaire, kitsch, froide, réalisées à partir de matériaux nobles comme le marbre, ou la porcelaine ... [138] He was given the 2008 Wollaston Award from the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Jeffrey L. Koons (/kuːnz/; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. [112], In 1989, Koons and fellow artist Martin Kippenberger worked together on an issue of the art journal Parkett; the following year, Koons designed an exhibition poster for Kippenberger. Koons est né à York, en Pennsylvanie, de Henry et Gloria Koons. [99], In 2012, Koons bought Advanced Stone Technologies, an offshoot of the non-profit Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture's stone division. 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Le New York Times a rapporté que « plusieurs dizaines de personnes ont manifesté devant les portes du palais » lors d'une manifestation organisée par un groupe de droite inconnu et luttant pour la pureté artistique française. [179], Following the end of his first marriage in 1994 to Hungarian-born Italian actress Ilona Staller, Staller left for Italy with their two-year-old son in violation of a US court order. Koons decided to bring in a specialist and give the piece "radical plastic surgery." [17] Since his relationship with the International Centre began, Koons has given over US$4.3 million to the Institute that bears his family's name. His mother was a seamstress. [155], Among curators and art collectors and others in the art world, Koons' work is labeled as Neo-pop or Post-Pop as part of a 1980s movement in reaction to the pared-down art of Minimalism and Conceptualism in the previous decade. [citation needed], In 2006, Koons presented Hanging Heart, a 9-foot-tall highly polished, steel heart, one of a series of five differently colored examples, part of his Celebration series. [33], The same material of stainless steel was used for the statue of Kiepenkerl. Le succès lui ayant souri, ses œuvres sont désormais réalisées dans un atelier, situé à Chelsea, avec plus de 100 assistants[5]. Cultural Ties was an exciting and unique fusion of art and fashion. ». Je crois que mon voyage a vraiment été de supprimer mon anxiété. The original of this work was sold in May 2019 for 91 million dollars (record for a living artist). [2][3], Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. "Adventures in the Skin Trade". [186], Koons is currently married to Justine Wheeler, an artist and former employee who began working in Koons' studio in 1995. A Nyúl Jeff Koons 1986-os rozsdamentes acél szobra . The piece, titled Lady Bug, is an augmented reality sculpture that can only be viewed on mobile devices through a GARAGE Magazine app, which allows viewers to explore the piece from a variety of angles as if standing on top of it. (, This page was last edited on 30 April 2021, at 10:42. [46], As a young artist, Koons was included in many exhibitions curated by Richard Milazzo including The New Capital at White Columns in 1984, Paravision at Postmasters Gallery in 1985, Cult and Decorum at Tibor De Nagy Gallery in 1986, Time After Time at Diane Brown Gallery in 1986, Spiritual America at CEPA in 1986, and Art at the End of the Social at The Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden in 1988. z Wikipedie, otevřené encyklopedie . Jeff Koons [dʒɛf kuːnz] (* 21. [84] For these surrealist installations, Acrobat in particular, Koons got inspiration from the Chicago Imagist H.C. Together, they form the head of a giant child's rocker. Dans son roman La Carte et le Territoire (2010), Michel Houellebecq met en scène le peintre Jed Martin travaillant à un tableau qui restera inachevé : Damien Hirst et Jeff Koons se partageant le marché de l’art. Cologne 2009. pp. [95], Referring to the ancient Roman marble statue Callipygian Venus, Metallic Venus (2010–2012) was made of high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating and live flowering plants. Chicago 2008. p. 109. [citation needed] In turn, his extreme enlargement of mundane objects owes a debt to Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. [23] In addition, Koons conceived and fabricated five unique works for the Encased series (1983–1993/98), sculptures consisting of stacked sporting balls (four rows of six basketballs each, and one row of six soccer balls) with their original cardboard packaging in glass display case. In 2013, his 10-foot-tall Balloon Dog (Orange) (1994–2000) was purchased for $58.4 million at Christie’s, setting a … É considerado o trabalho mais caro de um artista vivo. Chicago 2008. pp. Iepure ; Artist : Jeff Koons : An : 1986 ( ) Mediu : Sculptură din oțel inoxidabil : Subiect : Iepure : Iepurele este o sculptură din oțel inoxidabil din 1986 realizată de Jeff Koons . Hans Werner Holzwarth: Jeff Koons. Chaque assistant était affecté à un aspect différent de la production de son travail, selon un mode similaire à celui de « l'Usine » d'Andy Warhol (remarquable car tout son travail est produit à l'aide d'une méthode connue sous le nom de fabrication d'art). [51], Media mogul Peter Brant and his wife, model Stephanie Seymour, commissioned Koons to create a duplicate of the Bilbao statue Puppy (1993) for their Connecticut estate, the Brant Foundation Art Study Center. Parmi ses œuvres les plus célèbres figurent l'Inflatable Rabbit, les Balloon Dogs, les Tulips. Jeffrey L. Koons is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.