Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules)

plaster and glass 
128 1/2 x 67 x 48 5/8 inches 
326.4 x 170.2 x 123.5 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2013


Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules)

Details

Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules)

plaster and glass 
128 1/2 x 67 x 48 5/8 inches 
326.4 x 170.2 x 123.5 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2013

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California [April 27 - June 10, 2017] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain [June 9 - September 27, 2015] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015] (Edition 3)

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

 Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball. David Zwirner, New York, New York [May 8 - June 22, 2013] (Edition 1)

LITERATURE: 

Aimee Hinds, "Hercules in White: Classical Reception, Art, and Myth," The Jugaad Project: Material Religion in Context, June 23, 2020, online, (color ill.).

"Jeff Koons on Desire, Beauty, the Vastness of the Universe, and the Intimacy of Right Here, Right Now," Artspace, May 21, 2020, online (color ill.).

Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), (color ill. p. 16).

Hong Xinying, "This Art-Inspired Resort In Korea Is A Feast For Your Senses," Singapore Tatler (Singapore), November 26, 2018, online (color ill., Paradise Art Space, Korea).

Fionnuala McHugh, "Hong Kong-bound artist Sarah Morris, showing in Beijing, talks about films and the Olympics," South China Morning Post (China), March 24, 2018, online (color ill.).

Sara Montero, "La colaboración más esperada: Jeff Koons y Louis Vuitton versionan a Da Vinci," El Mundo (Spain), April 11, 2017, online (color ill.).

Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian, 2017), (color ill. pp.10-11, Gagosian Gallery installation), p. 16 (color ill. p.17), (color ill. p.19, Gagosian Gallery installation), p. 78.

Rachel Corbett, "Jeff Koons and Eric Kandel Talk Art and Empathy," Blouin Artinfo, October 4, 2016, online.

Elena Cué, "Interview with Jeff Koons," The Huffington Post, July 1, 2016, online (color ill.).

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. 220 (color ill. p. 220, pl. 135), p. 301.

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. 91).

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. 151 (color ill. p. 151).

Jeff Koons, "Scan to Koonsume," Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014, cover design, (color ill. p. 88).

Karen Garrat, “Jeff Koons: A Hubris Trickster Creating The Visually Grandoise,” Artlyst, July 24, 2014 (color ill.).

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. 18, p. 208 (color ill. p. 208, pl. 134), p. 290.

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. 216 (color ill. p. 216, pl. 134), p. 302.

Francesco Bonami, Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball, ed. Louise Sorensen, exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner, 2014), (color ill. pp. 64-65, David Zwirner installation), p. 66 (color ill. p. 67), (color ill. p. 69), (color ill. pp. 72-73, David Zwirner installation), p. 75.

Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Retropsective/A Retrospective, eds. Julie Champion and Caroline Edde, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 56 (color ill. p. 56).

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

Manami Fujimori, "World News: New York," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 65, no. 987, (July 2013), (color ill., p. 132, David Zwirner installation).

Daniel Creahan, "New York - Jeff Koons: "Gazing Ball" at David Zwirner, Through June 29th, 2013," Art Observed, June 28, 2013, (color ill., David Zwirner installation).

David Behringer, "A Closer Look at Jeff Koons," Design Milk, June 18, 2013, (color ill., David Zwirner installation).

Roberta Smith, "Gladiatorial Combat: The Battle of the Big," The New York Times, May 16, 2013, online.

Andrew Russeth, "'Jeff Koons- New Paintings and Sculpture' at Gagosian Gallery and 'Jeff Koons- Gazing Ball' at David Zwirner," Gallerist, May 14, 2013, online.

Carl Swanson, "The Age of Jeff Koons", New York, May 13, 2013, (color ill. p. 28).

Tracy Zwick, "Double-Barrel Frieze-Week Jeff Koons at Gagosian and Zwirner," Art in America 101, no. 5 (May 2013), p. 45.

Emmanuelle Lequeux, "Entretien Bernard Blistene," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008, (color ill. p. 7).