Travel Bar
Stainless steel
35,6 × 50,8 × 30,5 cm
The Luxury & Degradation series by Jeff Koons initially associated objects depicting the leisure activities of the American proletariat set in stainless steel and fake luxury, with stereotypical period advertising images of alcoholic beverages.
For Jeff Koons, this Travel Bar is a childhood memory coming from a similar item which his parents owned. "In Luxury and Degradation, the objects are given an artificial luxury, an artificial value, which transforms them completely, changing their function, and, to a certain extent, "decriticalizing" them. My surface is very much a false front for an undergoing dragradation," writes the artist.
The work Travel Bar was shown for the first time by Pinault Collection in 2006 during the "Post-Pop" exhibition at Palazzo Grassi.
Vue de l’exposition « Le monde comme il va », Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2024.
© Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Niney et Marca Architectes, agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier.
Photo : Nicolas Brasseur / Pinault Collection.
