黑料不打烊

Pace is pleased to present Jeff Koons鈥檚 sculpture Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels (Magenta) (2013-2019) at its Palm Beach gallery. This sculpture is one of the largest works from the artist鈥檚 renowned Antiquity series, and marks the first time the work is being exhibited publicly.

Koons, who is among the world鈥檚 most influential living artists, is internationally renowned for sculptures and paintings that unite conceptualism and the readymade. Over the course of more than four decades, Koons has redefined Minimalism and Pop art with his boundary-pushing practice. Often working at ambitious scales, the artist has created iconic artworks deeply engaged with popular culture, mass media, art and human history.

For his first presentation with Pace since joining the gallery in 2021, Koons will show Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels (Magenta), a mirror-polished stainless-steel sculpture that references the ancient mammoth ivory Venus of Hohlen Fels statuette, dated between 40,000 and 35,000 years ago, uncovered in a cave near Schelklingen, Germany in 2008. Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels is part of Koons鈥檚 Antiquity series, a body of work that includes four sculptures inspired by Paleolithic sculptures of Venuses.

In Koons鈥檚 Balloon Venus sculptures, the artist utilizes his quintessential balloon formations to represent female bodies and cultivate a dialogue between contemporary aesthetics and early examples of human ingenuity. As with other bodies of work by Koons, the Antiquity series forges connections across geographical and temporal boundaries.

鈥淵ou have a surface that very much is about the moment, and you view it, and it affirms you, and when you move, the abstraction changes. But at the same time it draws you back around 35,000 years ago,鈥� the artist has said of Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels.