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Extended through August 18, 2017

Jeff Koons

April 27–August 18, 2017
Beverly Hills

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Installation view Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

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Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Installation view Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Installation view

Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Installation view Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Installation view

Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Installation view Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Installation view

Artwork © Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Works Exhibited

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (David Intervention of the Sabine Women), 2016 Oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum, 65 × 88 ¼ × 14 ¾ inches (165.1 × 224.2 × 37.5 cm)© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (David Intervention of the Sabine Women), 2016

Oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum, 65 × 88 ¼ × 14 ¾ inches (165.1 × 224.2 × 37.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass), 2014–15 Oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum, 63 × 81 ¼ × 14 ¾ inches (160 × 206.4 × 37.5 cm)© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass), 2014–15

Oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum, 63 × 81 ¼ × 14 ¾ inches (160 × 206.4 × 37.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Ballerinas, 2010–14 Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 100 × 70 × 62 inches (254 × 177.8 × 157.5 cm)© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Jeff Koons, Ballerinas, 2010–14

Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 100 × 70 × 62 inches (254 × 177.8 × 157.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules), 2013 Plaster and glass, 128 ½ × 67 × 48 ⅝ inches (326.4 × 170 × 123.5 cm)© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules), 2013

Plaster and glass, 128 ½ × 67 × 48 ⅝ inches (326.4 × 170 × 123.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Mailbox), 2013 Plaster and glass, 74 ¼ × 24 ⅜ × 41 ½ inches (188.6 × 61.9 × 105.4 cm)© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Mailbox), 2013

Plaster and glass, 74 ¼ × 24 ⅜ × 41 ½ inches (188.6 × 61.9 × 105.4 cm)
© Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Balloon Rabbit (Magenta), 2005–10 Mirror–polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 168 × 107 × 80 ¾ inches (426.7 × 271.8 × 205.1 cm)© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Jeff Koons, Balloon Rabbit (Magenta), 2005–10

Mirror–polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 168 × 107 × 80 ¾ inches (426.7 × 271.8 × 205.1 cm)
© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Jeff Koons, Bluebird Planter, 2010–16 Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, and live flowering plants, 82 ½ × 110 ¾ × 40 inches (209.6 × 281.3 × 101.6 cm), edition of 3 + 1 AP© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Jeff Koons, Bluebird Planter, 2010–16

Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, and live flowering plants, 82 ½ × 110 ¾ × 40 inches (209.6 × 281.3 × 101.6 cm), edition of 3 + 1 AP
© Jeff Koons. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

About

I like to think that when you leave the room, the art leaves the room. Art is about your own possibilities as a human being. It’s about your own excitement, your own potential, and what you can become. It affirms your existence.
—Jeff Koons

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of recent and new work by Jeff Koons.

Making use of conceptual constructs including the ancient, the everyday, and the sublime, Koons creates luxurious icons and elaborate tableaux, which, beneath their captivating exteriors, engage the viewer in a metaphysical dialogue with cultural history.

Koons draws attention to the continuity of images as they pass through time. The Gazing Ball series is grounded in distinctive narratives and art-historical precedents—from ancient classical sculpture to Rubens and Manet. In each work, a blue mirrored, hand-blown glass gazing ball—a convention from eighteenth-century garden design—reflects its surroundings, uniting painting, sculpture, and architecture in order to multiply sensory experience. Balanced on the shoulder of Hercules, or introducing a dose of the surreal to the suburban harmony of a row of mailboxes, each gazing ball reactivates and intensifies familiar scenes, whether from legend or the everyday.

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Josh Kline, Skittles, 2014, commercial fridge, lightbox, and blended liquids in bottles, 86 ½ × 127 ½ × 41 inches (219.7 × 323.9 × 104.1 cm) © Josh Kline. Photo:  © Timothy Schenck

Laws of Motion

Catalyzed by Laws of Motion—a group exhibition pairing artworks from the 1980s on by Jeff Koons, Cady Noland, Rosemarie Trockel, and Jeff Wall with contemporary sculptures by Josh Kline and Anicka Yi—Wyatt Allgeier discusses the convergences and divergences in these artists’ practices with an eye to the economic worlds from which they spring.

The cover of the Fall 2019 Gagosian Quarterly magazine. Artwork by Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Sinking (2019) by Nathaniel Mary Quinn on its cover.

Glenstone Museum.

Intimate Grandeur: Glenstone Museum

Paul Goldberger tracks the evolution of Mitchell and Emily Rales’s Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland. Set amid 230 acres of pristine landscape and housing a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art, this graceful complex of pavilions, designed by architects Thomas Phifer and Partners, opened to the public in the fall of 2018.

Still from video Visions of the Self: Jenny Saville on Rembrandt

Visions of the Self: Jenny Saville on Rembrandt

Jenny Saville reveals the process behind her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles.

Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal

Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal

Learn more about Jeff Koons’s Easyfun-Ethereal series in this video featuring Rebecca Sternthal, one of the organizers behind the most recent exhibition of these works in New York.

RxART

The Bigger Picture
RxART

Derek Blasberg speaks with Diane Brown, president and founder of RxART, and with contributing artists Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, and Jeff Koons about the transformative power of visual art.

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Jeff Koons, Cherubs, 1991 © Jeff Koons. Photo: Rob McKeever

Art Fair

TEFAF Online New York 2020
Jeff Koons

November 1–4, 2020

Gagosian is pleased to participate in TEFAF Online New York 2020 with a special presentation of Cherubs (1991) by Jeff Koons.

A wall sculpture in polychromed wood, Cherubs forms a key part of Koons’s renowned Made in Heaven series (1989–91) and merges his investigation of kitsch aesthetics and commodity culture with a veneration of Baroque craftsmanship—it was carved by artisans from the Bavarian village of Oberammergau. Making reference to the Rococo visions of Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher, and evoking the cavorting figures of Cupid or Eros, Cherubs combines the religious and the sensual, bringing divergent conceptions of taste and value into confrontation with one another.

Jeff Koons, Cherubs, 1991 © Jeff Koons. Photo: Rob McKeever