Wednesday, 6 June 2007

balloon flower















This fascinating sculpture by Jeff Koons is constructed from soley stainless steel with a transparent colour coating. Jeff Koons is an american artist currently living and working in new york, he blends the concerns and methods of pop, conceptual and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, which is often controversial. He quotes that 'art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is.'

His mains concerns are with sex, desire, race, gender, celebrities, media and fame. He turns the traditional cliche of the work of art inside out to produce stunning outcomes like the sculpture above. His work is currently on display in the gogosian gallery on madison avenue in new york.

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