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 Koons, Jeff (1955 - )
USA

Bob Tail, 1991

Poly-chromed wood;
85.7 x 114.3 x 43.5 cm
90's

UID 102-317



Biography

American artist born in York, Pennsylvania. Studied at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, School of Art, Baltimore, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. 1980 First one-person exhibition, a window installation, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Emergent in the eighties, he was an artist to whom mass-market consumerism in itself offered imaginative possibilities. Found a genuine aesthetic pleasure in contemporary consumer culture. In the early eighties he showed the series The New, where he explored the reaction that accompanies the acquisition of consumer goods and provokes such a “strange excitement in people” as he said in a interview.” Taking an utilitalirian object like a vacuum cleaner out of its functional context, Koons gives it a different status by enclosing it in an elegant plexiglas vitrine with fluorescent showcase lighting. For Koons it is both an aesthetic object (unlike the ready mades of Duchamp) and a social icon. Koons then deliberately moved into kitsch and consumer icons for the rich. Selected exhibitions: 1985 Objects in Collision, The Kitchen, New York, Recent Sculpture and its Antecedents, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut, 1987 Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1990 Venice Biennale, High and Low, Modern Art and Popular Culture, MoMA, travelled to Chicago, Los Angeles). 1993 American Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996 Guggenheim Museum, New York. Lives in New York.



Exhibitions

The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003

Jeff Koons (Amsterdam)
Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), The Netherlands
28-11-1992 ~ 03-01-1993

Jeff Koons: Retrospective (Stuttgard)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
12-03-1993 ~ 18-04-1993

Jeff Koons (SF)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
10-12-1992 ~ 07-02-1993

Jeff Koons (Minneapolis)
Walker Art Center, USA
10-07-1993 ~ 03-10-1993

Pomar - Autobiography
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004

Jeff Koons: Retrospective (Aarhus)
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
22-01-1993 ~ 28-02-1993

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma)
The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan
19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima)
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi)
The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan
03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya)
Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka)
Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan
19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo)
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan
26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo)
The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan
06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004

The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997

Face - a - Face
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001

Novas Salas Pop, Fluxus, Foto-Realismo
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
09-06-1997 ~ 28-02-1998

Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001

Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca.
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002

Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo)
Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain
29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006

3D - The Berardo Collection at the Portugeuse Parlement
Assembleia da República, Portugal
17-04-2007 ~ 20-08-2007

Arriscar o Real
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009


Bibliography

Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729742873

Colecção Berardo em Faro, 1999
Published by Galeria ARCO - Galeria TREM

Jeff Koons, 1992
Published by Benedikt Taschen GmbH

Jeff Koons, 1992
Published by Stedelijk Museum

Jeff Koons, 1992
Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Jeff Koons: Retrospective, 1993
Published by Aarhus Kunstmuseum

Pomar - Autobiography, 2004
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9723709066

Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004
Published by TBS Television, INC.

Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006
Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza
ISBN 8495892529

The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729739105







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