This is fun - diary entry from ArtForum's "Scene and Herd" about Jeff Koons' current exhibition at Versailles (comprised of 17 works, none of them new, Split Rocker belonging to French billionaire Francois Pinault, one of the show's patrons), which has caused quite the uproar and buzz of excitement around town - Hoover vacuum cleaners in the chateau?! Inflatable plastic beach rings along the fence?? 40-foot tall flowering head of a rocking horse plopped in the flowerbed of the Orangerie gardens?? I think the entire affair is just delightful. And I can't help but giggle at the sight of one of my favorite Koons pieces, Balloon Dog, standing so proudly in the baroque space surrounding it.Jeff Koons, Split Rocker, stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, and live flowering plants (shown installed at Avignon, 2000)
441 x 465 x 426 inches
Other photos from the Versailles show opening (Koons pictured second from the left)
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I, too, laughed when I saw the balloon dog in surrounded by gaudy architecture. What irony!
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