To benefit Project Perpetual's mission for worldwide access for children to lifesaving vaccines, Koons created ten unique works which were auctioned to raise over $5.5 million. Gazing Ball (Charity) is a unique plaster sculpture that incorporates three donated Hermès Birkin bags in the arms of a woman extending to a child. Birkin Bag (Shelf) is comprised of nine unique wall sculptures that incorporate donated Hermès bags as Readymade objects on mirrors.
Gazing Ball (Charity)
plaster, glass and three Birkin bags
70 x 77 5/8 x 40 3/16 inches
177.8 x 197.2 x 102.1 cm
© Jeff Koons
2014
Birkin Bag (Shelf)
handbag, mirror and acrylic
sizes vary
© Jeff Koons
2014
Gazing Ball (Charity)
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To benefit Project Perpetual's mission for worldwide access for children to lifesaving vaccines, Koons created ten unique works which were auctioned to raise over $5.5 million. Gazing Ball (Charity) is a unique plaster sculpture that incorporates three donated Hermès Birkin bags in the arms of a woman extending to a child. Birkin Bag (Shelf) is comprised of nine unique wall sculptures that incorporate donated Hermès bags as Readymade objects on mirrors.
Gazing Ball (Charity)
plaster, glass and three Birkin bags
70 x 77 5/8 x 40 3/16 inches
177.8 x 197.2 x 102.1 cm
© Jeff Koons
2014
Birkin Bag (Shelf)
handbag, mirror and acrylic
sizes vary
© Jeff Koons
2014
LITERATURE:
Sarah Cascone, "Sherman and Salle to Inaugurate New London Spaces for Skarstedt and Almine Rech," Artnet News, June 13, 2016.
Emerson Rosenthal, "Happy Birthday, Jeff Koons," The Creators Project, January 21, 2016.
Charlotte Cowles, "Jeff Koons: Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya joins forces with the unstoppable artist," Harper's Bazaar, November, 2014.
Marshall Heyman," Birkin Bags, Jeff Koons Art on the Charity Auction Block," The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2014.
Simon de Pury, “Simon’s World: Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya and Jeff Koons Unite For Charity," Artnet, October 21, 2014.
Charlotte Cowles, "Jeff Koons Creates Work of Art Out of Birkin Bags," Harper's Bazaar, October 15, 2014.
Allan Kozinn, "Koons Creating Sculptures for New Philanthropy Project," The New York Times, September 8, 2014.
Camille Chenais, "Artist and Critical Receptions, 1960-2015," in Picasso.Mania, exh. cat., ed. Didier Ottinger (Paris: RMN, Grand Palais, 2015).