SPLIT-ROCKER

Split-Rocker
2000

stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants
446 7/8 x 483 1/8 x 427 5/8 inches
1135 x 1227 x 1086 cm

  • Avignon, Palais des Papes, La Beaute in Fabula, May 27 – October 1, 2000 (edition 1)

    Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, September 10, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (edition 1)

    Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons. May 13, 2012 – October 2, 2012AP)

    Potomac, Glenstone, June 2013 – ongoing (edition 1)

    New York, Rockefeller Center, Split-Rocker, June 25 – September 18, 2014 (AP)

  • Susan Corrigan, "Puppy Love", i-D Magazine, September 2000, (color ill. p. 248)

    Marisa Faion, "L'Art Prend Possession de L'Ile Seguin," Le Parisien, September 5, 2000, (ill. p. 1)

    Rolf-E Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), pp. 25, 27 (color ill. p. 25)

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons", W 29, no. 4 (April 2000), p. 402

    Laurie Attias, "Giant Koons Sculpture to Flower in Avignon," Art & Auction, May 15, 2000, p. 38

    "La ville en beaute a l'heure presidentielle," (Text in French) Le Provence (City), May 25, 2000, p. 38

    Raphaelle Bacque and Harry Bellet, "Jacques Chirac inaugure l'exposition "La Beaute" a Avignon," Le Monde 56, no. 17211 (May 27, 2000), (ill. cover)

    Judith Schlumberger, "Avignon fait la fete en Beaute," Le Journal du Dimanche, no. 2787 (May 28, 2000), (ill. p. 28)

    Galerie Jerome de Noirmont advertisement for Split-Rocker, Art & Auction, June 2000, (ill.)

    "Blooming Creatures," Art in America, July 2000, (ill. p. 128)

    Harry Bellet, "La collection imposante d'un boulimique d'art comtemporain," Le Monde 56, no. 17211 (September 5, 2000), p. 1

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001), p. 276

    "BlattStickerei," (text in German) Architektur & Wohnen (February-March 2002), (color ill. p. 110)

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p. 44 (color ill. pp. 44-45)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 117, 153, 155 (color ill. pp. 116, 117)

    Pasquale Esposito, "Il segno di Koons," (text in Italian) Corriere del Mezzzogiorno (Italy), June 5, 2003, p. 19

    "Art and fashion", Vogue Greece, March 2004, (color ill. p. 85)

    Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004), p. 73

    "Art & Fashion," Vogue (Greece), no. (May 2005), (color ill. p. 85)

    Stephanie Cash, "Koons Kitsch Meets Versailles Glitz," Art in America, November 2008, (color ill. p. 34) 

    "Carte Blanche au Kitsch," (Text in French) Rosebuzz (France),2008, p. 7

    Raphael Morata, "A New York, Jeff Koons Un Artiste Barock," (text in French), Point De Vue (France), August 27-September 2, 2008, p. 58

    Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Provocation ou Revolution?" Paris Capitale, no. 134, September 2008, p. 56 (color ill. p 57) 

    Laurence Dreyfus, "Jeff Koons, Roi Soleil," L'Officiel no. 928, (September 2008), pp. 328, 331

    Raphael Morata, ”Jeff Koons au Chateau de Versailles," (text in French) Point de Vue (France), September 17-23, 2008, (color ill. pp. 60-61, 63, 65)

    Eric Troncy, "Jeff Koons, Chateau de Versailles," Frog (Paris) no. 8 (Summer 2009), p. 44

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "L'enterprise Jeff Koons," Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008, p. 114

    Clarissa Tan, "From Pop to Pop", Luxe Business, 2009, (color ill. p. 22)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), (color ill. p. 52) 

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 20, 21, 96, 107, 112, 122, 123, 128, 129, 132, 164, 187 (color ill. pp. 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 164, back cover)