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Copyright the artist | | | Koons, Jeff (1955 - ) USA
Poodle, 1991
Poly-chromed wood; 58.4 x 100.3 x 52 cm 90's
UID 102-318
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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
Pomar - Autobiography Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004
Jeff Koons (Minneapolis) Walker Art Center, USA 10-07-1993 ~ 03-10-1993
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
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 Stedelijk Museum
Jeff Koons, 1992 Published by Benedikt Taschen GmbH, Cologne
Jeff Koons, 1992 Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Jeff Koons Handbook Published by Anthony d'Offay Gallery
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.
Sintra Museum of Modern Art – Berardo Collection, 1996 Published by Berardo Collection Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra
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