Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influentially controversial artists of the post-war era.
Throughout Koons’ career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity. Despite these achievements, Koons has never been the subject of a retrospective surveying the full scope of his career.
Comprising of 150 objects from 1979 to the present, a retrospective at The Whitney Museum of American Art will be the most comprehensive ever devoted to the artist’s groundbreaking work. This exhibition will be Koons’ first major museum presentation in New York, and for the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer building, the first to nearly fill its entirety with a single artist’s work.
The retrospective of Koons’ work is on display until Sunday 19 October 2014 and will be the final exhibition to take place at the Museum before the opening of its new building in New York’s Meatpacking District in 2015.
Koons’ iconic Split-Rocker sculpture is currently in New York and will remain on display at the Rockefeller Center until September 2014. More here.
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