Metallic Venus

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, live flowering plants
100 x 52 x 40 inches
254 x 132.1 x 101.6 cm
© Jeff Koons
2010-2012


Metallic Venus

Details

Metallic Venus

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, live flowering plants
100 x 52 x 40 inches
254 x 132.1 x 101.6 cm
© Jeff Koons
2010-2012

Metallic Venus

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, live flowering plants
100 x 52 x 40 inches
254 x 132.1 x 101.6 cm
© Jeff Koons
2010-2012

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain [June 9 - September 27, 2015]

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015] (Edition 2)

Sculpture after Sculpture: Fritsch, Koons, Ray. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden [October 11, 2014 - January 18, 2015] (AP)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27- October 19, 2014] (Edition 2)

Remember Everything – 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany [November 10 - December 21, 2013] (Edition 3) 

Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York [May 9 - June 29, 2013] (Edition 1)

Empire State: New York Art Now. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy [April 23 - July 21, 2013] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons. Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium [October 6 - November 17, 2012] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: The Sculptor. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, Germany [June 20 - September 23, 2012] (Edition 1)

LITERATURE: 

Isak Nilson and Erik Wikberg, "Artful Objects: Graham Harman on Art and the Business of Speculative Realism," Sternberg Press (Berlin, Germany), 2020, (color ill., Moderna Museet installation, Photo by Asa Lunden).

"La exposición de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons ya tiene fecha límite," El Mexicano (Mexico), September 4, 2019, online (color ill., Museo Jumex installation).

Sheila Ramirez, "Última llamada: Duchamp y Koons se despiden del Museo Jumex," Forbes, August 31, 2019, online (color ill., Museo Jumex installation).

Massimiliano Gioni, Apariencia desnuda: El Deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Museo Jumex, 2019), p. 12, p. 65, (color ill. p. 100).

Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. (London: Phaidon, 2019), p. 100 (color ill. p. 101).

Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. (Text in Spanish) (London: Phaidon, 2019), p. 100, p. 101, p. 253.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Athens Dialogues, ed. Karten Marta (Athens/London: DESTE Fondation for Contemporary Art/Koenig Books Ltd, 2018), p. 104.

Twenty Years, 1997-2017, Almine Rech Gallery, (Paris: Almine Rech Gallery, 2017), (color ill. p. 30).

David Salle, How to See Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art, Japanese edition, 2016, p. 97.

Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), (color ill. p. 53).

The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), (color ill. p. 90).

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 206 (color ill. p. 206, pl. 123), p. 212 (color ill. p. 212, fig. 3, Palazzo delle Esposizioni installation), p. 257, p. 258, p. 301.

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 87).

Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective La Portfolio De L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of The Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 144 (color ill. p. 144).

Aurelie Romanacce, "Jeff Koons: Le Roi de Paris," (Text in French) Arts Magazine, no. 93 (December 2014), (color ill.).

Myriam Boutoulle, "Jeff Koons, a star in Paris," (Text in French) Connaissance des Arts, (December 2014), (color ill. p. 73).

Véronique Prat, “Jeff Koons avec ses millions, il achète de Manet,” (Text in French) Le Figaro Magazine (Paris), no. 21869, November 29, 2014, (color ill. p. 54).

"Jeff Koons Geie ou Imposteur," (Text in French) Beaux Arts éditions, November 2014, (color ill. p. 140).

Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014), (color ill. p. 314, Whitney Retrospective installation).

Bill Powers, "The Time Traveler," Muse, Fall 2014.

Jae-Su Kim, "A Magician of Creation and Destruction," (Text in Japanese) Art in Asia (Japan), August 2014.

Andrew Russeth, "Watch the Throne," Gallerist, June 26, 2014, online (color ill., Whitney Retrospective installation).

Stephanie Murg, "Jeff Koons' Technicolor takeover of the Whitney Museum," Wallpaper (United Kingdom), June 26, 2014, (color ill.).

Ellen Gamerman, "Jeff Koons Retrospective to Open at the Whitney," The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2014, online (color ill.).

Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, "Jeff Koons: une histoire de gout," (Text in French) Les Cahiers du Musee National d'Art Moderne (Paris) 128 (Summer 2014), p. 46.

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 194 (color ill. p. 194, pl. 122), p. 200 (color ill. p. 200, fig. 3, Palazzo delle Esposizioni installation), p. 201 (color ill. p. 201, fig. 10, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation), p. 245, p. 289.

Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 202 (color ill. p. 202, pl. 122), p. 208 (color ill. p. 208, fig. 3, Palazzo delle Esposizioni installation), p. 209 (color ill. p. 209, fig. 10, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation), p. 257, p. 258, p. 302.

Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (Thames & Hudson, 2014).

Jeff Koons: La Retropsective/A Retrospective, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 55 (color ill. p. 55).

Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 15, (color ill. p. 19), p. 20 (color ill. p. 21), (color ill. p. 22, detail), p. 93 (color ill. p. 93).

Remember Everything – 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, eds. Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais, exh. cat. (Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2014), (color ill. p. 14, Max Hetzler installation), (color ill. pp. 38-39, Max Hetzler installation), (color ill. p. 44, Max Hetzler installation), (color ill. pp. 46-47, Max Hetzler installation), (color ill. p. 114, Max Hetzler installation).

Sarah Thornton, 33 Artists in 3 Acts (London: Granta, 2014), (ill. p. 104), p. 105, p. 108.

Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014), p. 38 (color ill. p. 39).

Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014), (color ill. p. 124, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 65, no. 993, (October 2013).

Alison M. Gingeras, "Instant Classic", Artforum 52, no. 1 (September 2013), (color ill. p. 146).

Jerry Saltz, "Creator and Destroyer of Worlds. Taking in the mad perfectionism of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, June 30 - July 13, 2013, p. 103.

Whitney Kimball, "Bigger Than Koons: A Review of Chelsea’s Double-Feature," Art F City, June 7, 2013, online (color ill., Gagosian Gallery installation).

Isa Freeling, "Jeff Koons: Shiny And Industrialised Commercial Gold At Gagosian," Artlyst, May 16, 2013, online (color ill., Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

Andrew Russeth, "'Jeff Koons - New Paintings and Sculpture' at Gagosian Gallery and 'Jeff Koons- Gazing Ball' at David Zwirner," Gallerist, May 14, 2013, online (color ill., Almine Rech installation).

"Jeff Koons Sticks With Gagosian For New Spring Exhibition," Artlyst, May 7, 2013, (color ill., Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

Tracy Zwick, "Double-Barrel Frieze-Week Jeff Koons at Gagosian and Zwirner," Art in America 101, no. 5 (May 2013), (color ill.).

Joachim Pissarro, Jeff Koons: Almine Rech Gallery (Brussels: Almine Rech, 2013), (color ill.pp. 30-31, Almine Rech installation), (color ill. pp. 46-47, Almine Rech installation), p. 48 (color ill. p. 49), (color ill. p. 50), p. 73, p. 78, p. 81, p. 86, p. 89.

Norman Rosenthal, Empire State: New York Art Now, exh. cat. (Rome: Rizzoli, 2013), (color ill. p. 110).

Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," Interview, December 2012/January 2013, p. 46 or Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," Interview, December 2012/January 2013, (digital version).

Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Russian) Interview (Russia) (November 2012), (color ill. p. 156, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation shown on monitor at studio).

"Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012), (color ill. p. 104, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

Eva Karcher, "Sex Lieben," (Text in German) Interview with Jeff Koons and Max Hollein, Vogue (Germany), September 2012, (color ill. pp. 350-351, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

"Jeff Koons's New Sculptures: Sexy Contemporary Antiquities," The Economist (London), July 7-13, 2012, p. 76.

Catherine Hickley, "Jeff Koons Fashions Venus’s Buttocks in Shiny Steel," Bloomberg, June 24, 2012, online (color ill.).

Sarah Thornton, "Divine Intervention", Artforum, June 22, 2012, online (color ill., Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

Claudia Schulmerich, “Kitsch as Kitsch can,” (Text in German) Weltexpresso, June 19, 2012, online.

Holger Liebs, "Mr. Koons?" Monopol: Special Jeff Koons. Berlin: Juno Kunstverlag GmbH, 2012, (color ill. p. 11), (color ill. p. 44, work in progress).

Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasscamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), p. 10, p. 14, p. 100 (color ill. p. 101), (color ill. p. 103), p. 187, as '2010'.

Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), p. 29, p. 39, p. 70, p. 82.

Jeff Koons and Pharrell Williams, "Artistic License. Photographs by Jeff Koons," Harper's Bazaar, September 2011.

Christophe Moltisanto, "Koons et l'histoire de l'art," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008, p. 61.