Jeff
Koons
Jeff
Koons
Koons
The undisputable master of kitsch, Jeff Koons is a major figure of the contemporary art world. His artworks based on an “aesthetic of communication” are truly fetish objects that interrogate the link between art and consumption.
Jeff Koons starts as an artist in the mid-1980s after training at the Maryland Institute of Art and working as a trader in Wall Street. His first series, which are inspired among others by Duchamp's readymades, Andy Warhol's Pop Art and American popular imagery, represent daily-life objects such as household appliances (The New) or play with references from art history and interior design (e.g. Bourgeois Bust). The artist reproduces large, brightly colored “balloon” sculptures in stainless steel, including the iconic Balloon Dog and Hanging Heart, which have become two of his trademarks.
The Jeff Koons artworks held in the Pinault Collection have been shown numerous times through loans, external exhibitions and at Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana in Venice.
Jeff Koons starts as an artist in the mid-1980s after training at the Maryland Institute of Art and working as a trader in Wall Street. His first series, which are inspired among others by Duchamp's readymades, Andy Warhol's Pop Art and American popular imagery, represent daily-life objects such as household appliances (The New) or play with references from art history and interior design (e.g. Bourgeois Bust). The artist reproduces large, brightly colored “balloon” sculptures in stainless steel, including the iconic Balloon Dog and Hanging Heart, which have become two of his trademarks.
The Jeff Koons artworks held in the Pinault Collection have been shown numerous times through loans, external exhibitions and at Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana in Venice.
