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“It is about celebration and childhood and color and simplicity – but it’s also a Trojan horse. It’s a Trojan horse to the whole body of art work.” Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons is without a question one of the most important living artists. He is among the few who successfully extract the essentials from avant-gardism, most notably Pop Art. In his hands, even the most familiar, everyday items transcend commonality to become true icons that manifest the essence of American popular culture. Yet on a broader scope, we are presented with positive messages of acceptance and humanity, themes that resonate universally.

His oeuvre has been honored all over the world with solo-exhibitions in renowned institutions as the Whitney Museum in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Chateau de Versailles, to name only a few. In 2013 Koons becomes the most expensive living artist when his oversized sculpture “Balloon Dog Orange” was sold for the unbelievable sum of 58.4 Mio USD at Christie's in New York.

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THE CELEBRATION SERIES

Koons' highly acclaimed Celebration series, starting in the early 1990s, evokes with its large-scale motifs of balloon animals, wrapped Easter eggs or stacks of play-doo, cheerful and light-hearted children’s memories of birthday parties and holidays. The balloon sculptures have turned out to be the most time and cost consuming project of the artist. Driven by Koons’ ambition to produce a flawless object the production of the sculptures took several years. The iconic forms of the balloon animals – dog, swan, rabbit and monkey – have been blown up to gigantic sculptures of steel, covered with a transparent chromatic coating. This finish gives the massive artworks a fragile and light appearance. These works are now available for collectors in a smaller size as an edition.

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Bernardaud

In 2012, ten years after the premiere of the first exhibited Split Rocker in Avignon (France), Koons joins forces with high-end French porcelain manufacture Bernardaud to release a limited edition in reduced size of the monumental original Split Rocker. In 2015/16 this is followed by a collector’s version of the Balloon Dog in three different colors. Now the company is manufacturing limited editions of the iconic Balloon Rabbit, Balloon Swan and Balloon Monkey.

Bernardaud, the famous French porcelain company was founded in Limoges in 1863. Still family-owned, the brand has always striven for excellence, quality and precision. Working in a field that is perpetually evolving, Bernardaud remains in the elite of design and innovation, developing technologies that push back the technical limits of the art of porcelain making. Each collection, piece of furniture, lighting creation or decorative object, that bears the Bernardaud signature brings the grace of simple luxury to everyday life and demonstrates that, after two thousand years, porcelain continues to prove its worth as an exceptional material.

Weng Contemporary

Weng Contemporary is redefining the experience of purchasing prime art editions online. We offer a high-end art collecting experience by presenting a portfolio of limited-edition artworks by leading contemporary artists.

Established in 2014 in Zug, Switzerland, Weng Contemporary – ArtXX AG is part of Weng Fine Art AG; an international art trading and consulting company, which since 1994 has been dealing in fine art and editions. We are actively engaged in the manufacturing process of the majority editions we offer and therefore, can guarantee authenticity and provenance tracking, quality and condition reports, transparency in price, and availability of all artworks listed on our website.

With worldwide shipping facilitation, secure payment options; including payment in EUR, USD, CHF, as well as Bitcoin (BTC), and a team of experts ready to advise you on all matters personally, Weng Contemporary provides a convenient and trustworthy source for making your acquisition a high-end art collecting experience.

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