Wrecking Ball

polychromed aluminum, powder coated carbon steel, and coated steel chain
62 1/2 x 17 x 20 1/2 inches, plus chain at variable length
158.8 x 43.2 x 52.1 cm, plus chain at variable length
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
2003


Wrecking Ball

Details

Wrecking Ball

polychromed aluminum, powder coated carbon steel, and coated steel chain
62 1/2 x 17 x 20 1/2 inches, plus chain at variable length
158.8 x 43.2 x 52.1 cm, plus chain at variable length
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
2003

Wrecking Ball

EXHIBITED: 

Miami Art Basel. Dominique Levy Booth, Miami Beach, Florida [December 4 - 8, 2013] (Edition 3)

In Praise of Doubt. Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy [April 9, 2011-December 31, 2012]

Jeff Koons: Popeye Series. The Serpentine Gallery, London, England [July 2 - September 13, 2009] (Edition 1)

Un Certain Etat du Monde? [A Certain State of the World?] A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation. Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia [March 19 - June 14, 2009] (Edition 3)

Translation - The Dakis Joannou Collection. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France [June 23 - September 18, 2005] (Edition 1)

Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection. DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [June 22 - December 31, 2004] (Edition 1)

Popeye. Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York [November 8 - December 19, 2003]

LITERATURE: 

Camille Buonanno, "Jeff Koons s’invite au Mucem pour une exposition inédite," AD Magazine (France), May 21, 2021, online (color ill., Mucem installation, Photo by Laurent Lecat).

Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts, May 2021, (color ill. p. 29).

Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection (Paris:  Éditions Dilecta, 2021), (color ill. p. 122), (color ill. p. 237).

An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste, 2019), p. 100, p. 101.

Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words, (Athens: Deste, 2019), p. 108 (color ill. p. 109), p. 125.

For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism, ed. Andreas Beyer, exh. cat. (Hatje Cantz, September 30, 2014), (color ill. front pages, private home installation), (color ill. p. 206).

In Praise of Doubt. exh. cat. (Venice: Palazzo Grassi and Mondadori Electa, 2011), paperback and hardcover, (color ill. p. 244).

Nicholas Bourriaud, Jeffrey Deitch, Massimiliano Gioni, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Lisa Phillips, Nancy Spector, and Lynne Tillman, Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons, eds. Jarrett Gregory and Sarah Valdez, exh. cat. (New York: The New Museum, 2010), (color ill. p. 196, The New Museum installation).

John Gray and Caroline Bourgeois, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (Milan: Skira Editore, 2009), (color ill. pp. 60-61), p. 145.

Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (foreword and conversation), Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, eds. Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, 2009), (color ill. p. 40).

Jeffrey Deitch, Fractured Figure, Volume I, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste, 2008), (color ill. p. 18).

Laura Lazzaroni, "Jeff Koons", L'Uomo Vogue, no. 381 (May/June 2007), (color ill. pp. 218-219, work in progress at studio).

Julie L. Belcove, "Koons World," W, (November 2006), (color ill. p. 215, detail).

Anouchka Roggeman and Karen Wright, “Koons on Koons,” Modern Painters, June 2006, (color ill. pp. 64-65, studio, Photo by Todd Selby).

Katia Arfara and Nicolas Bourriad, Translation: A Visual Trip, Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste, 2006), (color ill.).

"Monument to Now," Guggemheim, Fall 2004, (color ill. p. 22, detail).

Synthesis, (Text in Greek), August 2004, (color ill. p. 47, Deste Foundation institute of Contemporary Art installation, partial view).

Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004), (color ill. p. 93).

Monument to Now, exh. cat. (Athens, Deste, 2004), (color ill. p. 246).

Eleanor Heartney, “Jeff Koons at Sonnabend,” Art in America, 2004.