Hulk (Friends)

polychromed bronze
71 1/4 x 48 1/2 x 26 inches
181 x 123.2 x 66 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2004-2012


Hulk (Friends)

Details

Hulk (Friends)

polychromed bronze
71 1/4 x 48 1/2 x 26 inches
181 x 123.2 x 66 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2004-2012

Hulk (Friends)

polychromed bronze
71 1/4 x 48 1/2 x 26 inches
181 x 123.2 x 66 cm
© Jeff Koons
2004-2012

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: Lost in America. Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Doha, Qatar [November 21, 2021 - March 31, 2022] (AP)

Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. Museo Jumex, Mexico City [May 19 - September 29, 2019] (Edition 3)

The Sonnabend Collection: Part II. Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal [May 11 – September 23, 2018] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons: Hulk (Friends). Österreichische, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria [September 4, 2015 - October 2, 2015] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis. Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong [November 6 - December 20, 2014] (Edition 2)

Empire State: New York Art Now. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France [November 17, 2013 - February 15, 2014] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons. Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium [October 6 - November 17, 2012] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: The Sculptor. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, Germany [June 20 - September 23, 2012] (Edition 1)

LITERATURE: 

Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021).

Emma Taggart, "Here are six Jeff Koons artworks that showcase how his artistic practice evolved over the years," My Modern Met, September 13, 2020, online (color ill.).

Claire Selvin, "KAWS Mania, Buying Frenzy Over Julie Curtiss Painting Punctuate $108.1 M. Phillips 20th-Century and Contemporary Sale with ‘Measured’ Bidding," Artnews, November 14, 2019, online (color ill.).

Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. London: Phaidon, 2019, (color ill. pp. 4-5), p. 240 (color ill. p. 241).

Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. (Text in Spanish) (London: Phaidon, 2019), (color ill. pp. 4-5), (color ill. pp. 240-2410, p. 253.

Valdemar Cruz, "Dos excessos de Jeff Koons à fotografia de Gilbert & George – Serralves regressa à coleção Sonnabend," Expresso (Portugal), May 10, 2018, online (color ill.).

Paula Alonso Poza, "#loquehayquever en Portugal: la Colección Sonnabend vuelve al Serralves," Arte Informado (Spain), May 10, 2018, online (color ill.).

"Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art," E-Flux, May 7, 2018, online (color ill.).

João Ribas, The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of European and American Art. Part II, exh. cat. (Porto: Serralves, 2018), (color ill. cover), p. 5, p. 120 (color ill. p. 121), p. 133.

Twenty Years, 1997-2017, Almine Rech Gallery, (Paris: Almine Rech Gallery, 2017), (color ill. p. 66, Almine Rech installation).

Gagosian Quarterly, February-April 2016, (color ill. cover, detail), (color ill. p. 162).

Iker Seisdedos, "Retrato de Jeff Koons, el artista más cotizado del mundo," (Text in Spanish) El País, May 27, 2015, (color ill., detail, work in progress at studio).

Iker Seisdedos, "Factoria Koons: En Portada," (Text in Spanish) El País, no. 2017 (May 24, 2015), (color ill. p. 42, detail, work in progress at studio).

Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery, 2015), (color ill. cover, detail), p. 17, p. 32 (color ill. pp. 32-33), (color ill. pp. 34-35, detail), (color ill. p. 51, Pedder Street installation), (color ill. back cover, detail).

Jeff Koons, "Scan to Koonsume," Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014, (color ill. p. 88).

Bill Powers, "The Time Traveler," Muse, Fall 2014, (color ill. pp. 100-101, work in progress at studio).

Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Gagosian, 2014), (color ill. cover, detail).

Sarah Thornton, 33 Artists in 3 Acts (London: Granta, 2014), p. 106.

Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014), (color ill. p. 123, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).  

Joachim Pissarro, Jeff Koons: Almine Rech Gallery (Brussels: Almine Rech, 2013), (color ill. pp. 20-21, Almine Rech installation), (color ill.pp. 30-31, Almine Rech installation), (color ill. pp. 32-33, Almine Rech installation), p. 36 (color ill. p. 37), (color ill. pp. 38-39, Almine Rech installation), (color ill. pp. 40-41, Almine Rech installation), p. 89.

George Pendle, "Jeff Koons Welcome to the Funhouse," The American Visual Arts in China, Summer/Fall 2012.

"Jeff Koons's New Sculptures: Sexy Contemporary Antiquities," The Economist (London), July 7-13, 2012, (color ill. p. 76).

Sarah Thornton, "Divine Intervention", Artforum, June 22, 2012, online (color ill., detail, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

"Jeff Koons: Epitome of Desire", Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012, p. 75.

Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasscamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), p. 114 (color ill. p. 115), p. 188.

Brigitte Lacombe, "Manhattan Portraits," ACNE Paper 14 (Winter 2012), (ill., work in progress at studio).

Ken Miller, "Jeff Koons," Tokion (Canada), March 2005, (color ill. p. 39, work in progress at studio).