Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000


Split-Rocker

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Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000

Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000

Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000

Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000

Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000

Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000

Split-Rocker

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm
© Jeff Koons
2000

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: Split-Rocker. Rockefeller Center, New York, New York [June 25 - September 18, 2014] 

Split-Rocker. Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland [June 2013 - currently installed]

Jeff Koons. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland [May 13, 2012 - October 2, 2012]

Jeff Koons: Versailles. Château de Versailles, Versailles, France [October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009]

La Beauté in Fabula. Palais de Papes, Avignon, France [May 27 - October 1, 2000]

LITERATURE: 

Susan Corrigan, "Puppy Love", i-D Magazine, September 2000, (color ill. p. 248)

Marisa Faion, "L'Art Prend Possession de L'Ile Seguin," Le Parisien, September 5, 2000, (ill. p. 1)

Rolf-E Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), pp. 25, 27 (color ill. p. 25)

James Reginato, "Crafty Koons", W 29, no. 4 (April 2000), p. 402

Laurie Attias, "Giant Koons Sculpture to Flower in Avignon," Art & Auction, May 15, 2000, p. 38

"La ville en beaute a l'heure presidentielle," (Text in French) Le Provence (City), May 25, 2000, p. 38

Raphaelle Bacque and Harry Bellet, "Jacques Chirac inaugure l'exposition "La Beaute" a Avignon," Le Monde 56, no. 17211 (May 27, 2000), (ill. cover)

Judith Schlumberger, "Avignon fait la fete en Beaute," Le Journal du Dimanche, no. 2787 (May 28, 2000), (ill. p. 28)

Galerie Jerome de Noirmont advertisement for Split-Rocker, Art & Auction, June 2000, (ill.)

"Blooming Creatures," Art in America, July 2000, (ill. p. 128)

Harry Bellet, "La collection imposante d'un boulimique d'art comtemporain," Le Monde 56, no. 17211 (September 5, 2000), p. 15

Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487, (March 2001), p. 276

"BlattStickerei," (text in German) Architektur & Wohnen (February-March 2002), (color ill. p. 110)

Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p. 44 (color ill. pp. 44-45)

Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 117, 153, 155 (color ill. pp. 116, 117)

Pasquale Esposito, "Il segno di Koons," (text in Italian) Corriere del Mezzzogiorno (Italy), June 5, 2003, p. 19

"Art and fashion", Vogue Greece, March 2004, (color ill. p. 85)

Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004), p. 73

"Art & Fashion," Vogue (Greece), no. (May 2005), (color ill. p. 85)

Stephanie Cash, "Koons Kitsch Meets Versailles Glitz," Art in America, November 2008, (color ill. p. 34)

"Carte Blanche au Kitsch," (Text in French) Rosebuzz (France), 2008, p. 7

Raphael Morata, "A New York, Jeff Koons Un Artiste Barock," (text in French), Point De Vue (France), August 27-September 2, 2008, p. 58

Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Provocation ou Revolution?" Paris Capitale, no. 134, September 2008, p. 56 (color ill. p 57)

Laurence Dreyfus, "Jeff Koons, Roi Soleil," L'Officiel no. 928, (September 2008), pp. 328, 331

Raphael Morata, ”Jeff Koons au Chateau de Versailles," (text in French) Point de Vue (France), September 17-23, 2008, (color ill. pp. 60-61, 63, 65)

Eric Troncy, "Jeff Koons, Chateau de Versailles," Frog (Paris) no. 8 (Summer 2009), p. 44

Isabelle de Wavrin, "L'enterprise Jeff Koons," Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008, p. 114

Clarissa Tan, "From Pop to Pop", Luxe Business, 2009, (color ill. p. 22)

Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), (color ill. p. 52)

Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 20, 21, 96, 107, 112, 122, 123, 128, 129, 132, 164, 187 (color ill. pp. 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 164, back cover)

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), (color ill. p. 40)

Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz publishers, 2012), pp. 8, 9, 10, 193, 194, 195, 196, 199, 200, 201, 203, 205 (color ill. pp. 190-191, 192, 196, 197, 202)

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 141 (color ill. p. 142-143) [French Edition]

Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 141 (color ill. p. 142-143) [English Edition]

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), pp. 160, 161 (color ill. pp. 160, 161)

Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 5 (color ill. p. 5)

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), pp. 11, 168, 169 (color ill. pp. 168, 169)

Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014), (color ill. p. 121)

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), pp. 172, 173 (color ill. p. 172, 174)

Kristine Roome, "“Fear Eats the Soul” – Rirkrit Tiravanija at Glenstone Museum," Arte Fuse, January 21, 2020

Daniella Byck, "Glenstone Is Reopening Its Gorgeous Outdoor Spaces to Visitors," Washingtonian, May 29, 2020 

Carmen Honker, "Glendstone's Jeff Koons Sculpture Has 24,000 Plants and One Seriously Dedicated Caretaker," Washingtonian, June 15, 2020, (color ill. work in progress)

Jeff Holland, "Jeff Holland: Give your mind a stretch as well as your legs at Glenstone," Capital Gazette, November 28, 2020 

Marc Treib, "The Making of Serious Fun," in Serious Fun The Landscapes of Claude Cormier (Novato, CA: ORO Editions, 2021), p. 47

Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection (Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2021), pp. 33, 34, 98 (color ill. p. 35)

Rosa Cartagena, "Glenstone Will Reopen Its Grounds on March 4," Washingtonian, February 11, 2021 (color ill.)

Lauren Kaori Gurley, "Love, Labor, Lost," The American Prospect, January 26, 2021

Flaminio Gualdoni, Arte Contemporanea - I Protagonisti: 04- Koons, Italy: Corriere Della Serra, 2022, p. 22 (ill. installation view pp. 20, 23, 46)

"Seasonal highlights at Glenstone Museum," Apollo Magazine, August 11, 2023