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HKD 75,000.00
Original Price:
HKD 112,000.00
Jeff Koons Yellow Balloon Swan, Circa 2017.
Limited Edition. 1 of 999 pcs.
Signed and numbered with certificate of authenticity.
Jeff Koons transforms a simple twisted balloon swan into a reflective yellow porcelain for his limited edition, Balloon Swan (Yellow). The original Balloon Swan, 2004–2011, is a monumental sculpture, standing over 3 meters high, in mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating in five unique versions: magenta, red, violet, blue, and yellow.
The figure of the swan has significant personal resonance for the artist; it was one of the first sculptures Koons made at 9 years old in ceramic, for which the young artist diligently worked on to get the angle of the neck correct. For Balloon Swan, he worked for over a year and a half shaping its graceful neck.
Through research, modeling, milling, polishing, and lacquering, the swan was elevated to its final monumental form. His perseverance resulted in a work that alludes to the playfulness of childhood while its simplified, reflective surface also communicates desire and acceptance.
Koons had an epiphany when he first saw the swan’s two-dimensional form on the computer: “Balloon Swan harmonizes sexual energy. If you look at it from the front, it’s totem-like and male. If you go to the side it becomes female. Balloon Swan is reminiscent of classical works, it defines beauty as sexual harmony.”
Designers: Jeff Koons.
Producer: Bernardaud.
Manufactured: Limoges, France.
Design Year: 2004.
Production Year: 2017.
Type: Art Collectables.
About Jeff Koons.
Best known for his larger-than-life sculptures of balloon animals, Jeff Koons is an art world behemoth capable of exciting the media and drawing on celebrity contacts like no other living artist. His unprecedented rise since the mid-1980s has coincided with a huge upsurge in demand for art as a consumer commodity. Some critics have labeled his more garish works as Neo-kitsch and several of his pieces have overtly sexual themes. Whatever the categorization, his work has always stretched the boundaries of what could be called “art” and in so doing has sensationally explored our relationship to contemporary life.
Rejecting any meaning in his work and viewing irony as a distraction from the art itself, Jeff Koons wants his work to be perceived in the immediacy of the initial glance. Born in Pennsylvania in 1955, Jeff Koons finished art school and started working at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He first achieved critical success with Rabbit (1986) a 41-inch steel sculpture of an inflatable rabbit. This move toward consumerist decadence precipitated sudden and astonishing attention on the artist.
The artist enjoyed a retrospective in 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has exhibited his work in all major art capitals around the world and featured in two Venice Biennales in 1990 and 1997. Jeff Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living artist—Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994-2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $58.4 million at Christie’s.
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Jeff Koons Yellow Balloon Swan, Circa 2017.
Limited Edition. 1 of 999 pcs.
Signed and numbered with certificate of authenticity.
Jeff Koons transforms a simple twisted balloon swan into a reflective yellow porcelain for his limited edition, Balloon Swan (Yellow). The original Balloon Swan, 2004–2011, is a monumental sculpture, standing over 3 meters high, in mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating in five unique versions: magenta, red, violet, blue, and yellow.
The figure of the swan has significant personal resonance for the artist; it was one of the first sculptures Koons made at 9 years old in ceramic, for which the young artist diligently worked on to get the angle of the neck correct. For Balloon Swan, he worked for over a year and a half shaping its graceful neck.
Through research, modeling, milling, polishing, and lacquering, the swan was elevated to its final monumental form. His perseverance resulted in a work that alludes to the playfulness of childhood while its simplified, reflective surface also communicates desire and acceptance.
Koons had an epiphany when he first saw the swan’s two-dimensional form on the computer: “Balloon Swan harmonizes sexual energy. If you look at it from the front, it’s totem-like and male. If you go to the side it becomes female. Balloon Swan is reminiscent of classical works, it defines beauty as sexual harmony.”
Designers: Jeff Koons.
Producer: Bernardaud.
Manufactured: Limoges, France.
Design Year: 2004.
Production Year: 2017.
Type: Art Collectables.
About Jeff Koons.
Best known for his larger-than-life sculptures of balloon animals, Jeff Koons is an art world behemoth capable of exciting the media and drawing on celebrity contacts like no other living artist. His unprecedented rise since the mid-1980s has coincided with a huge upsurge in demand for art as a consumer commodity. Some critics have labeled his more garish works as Neo-kitsch and several of his pieces have overtly sexual themes. Whatever the categorization, his work has always stretched the boundaries of what could be called “art” and in so doing has sensationally explored our relationship to contemporary life.
Rejecting any meaning in his work and viewing irony as a distraction from the art itself, Jeff Koons wants his work to be perceived in the immediacy of the initial glance. Born in Pennsylvania in 1955, Jeff Koons finished art school and started working at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He first achieved critical success with Rabbit (1986) a 41-inch steel sculpture of an inflatable rabbit. This move toward consumerist decadence precipitated sudden and astonishing attention on the artist.
The artist enjoyed a retrospective in 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has exhibited his work in all major art capitals around the world and featured in two Venice Biennales in 1990 and 1997. Jeff Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living artist—Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994-2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $58.4 million at Christie’s.
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