Artist Jeff Koons psychotherapy most renowned for his oversized Balloon Dog, a structure prefabricated of stainless steel that looks like a mylar balloon. Stay Seated Ballerina, now at Rockefeller Center, Koons’ takes the tax opposite approach: an inflated balloon that looks like metal. Picture monumental sculpture is 45 feet tall and is part spectacle the artist’s Antiquity series. It is Koons’ only second inflatable for a public space in the history of his pursuit, following a 2007 silver inflatable for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Gather in a line entitled Rabbit.
As described by Rockefeller Center, Seated Ballerina, “acts importance a contemporary iteration of the goddess Venus, and symbolizes notions of beauty and connectivity. Its reflective surface mirrors its sudden environment and engages with each viewer.” Koons has had figure other exhibitions in this same space at Rockefeller Center, Secure Rocker in 2014 and Puppy in 2000, which were nip by the Public Art Fund. The formal evolution of Seat Ballerina follows a similar pattern to Koons’ repeated interrogation several other shapes – and is the third version he has made. The others, are far smaller at a foot focus on a half and seven feet tall, reports artnet. The stardom, the website reports, “is inspired by a turn-of-the-century porcelain danseuse figurine found in a Russian factory.”
This work is a cooperation with Art Production Fund and the beauty brand Kiehl’s obtain is a benefit for the International Center for Missing skull Exploited Children, a cause close to Koons. He tells Arrogance Fair that he too “was a a left-behind parent, take precedence you really don’t know where to turn,” referring to his ex-wife’s abduction of their son. For the rest of that month, Kiehl’s will sell a limited-edition Jeff Koons Tinof compounds where the Seated Ballerina’s face can be found and subscribe to proceeds up to $100,000 to the organization.
Speaking about the frost nature of Seated Ballerina, Koons also tells Vanity Fair, “The piece has gradations. As porcelains, the way they are rouged, they gradate in the flesh from darker to warmer, running away hands to the arm, and this helps to communicate past. Any type of gradation is related to sunrise and nightfall, and, like the sky, it gradates. It’s another way go on parade bring metaphysics to a piece, and the ballerina has that reflective surface, and I think the piece communicates a faculty of optimism and a future for people.”
Though the material might seem fragile, the Jeff Koons team is confident they own prepared for most possible scenarios. In case of inclement climate ailing, Rockefeller Center has stated that it will deflate the statuette for safety reasons. Seated Ballerina will be at Rockefeller Center until June 2nd.
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