Modern Art at Versailles 2008 Jeff Koons Balloon Flower Sepia

by Chuck Kuhn

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Modern Art at Versailles 2008 Jeff Koons Balloon Flower Sepia

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Chuck Kuhn

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Photograph - Photography

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Mr Koons, regarded as the contemporary king of kitsch and master of the over-the-top, will display his 17 sculptures at Versailles, including a giant metal balloon dog and a cartoon animal's head made of flower pots, under the title "Let them see kitsch".

The exhibition cost more than £1.6 million to transport his works, mostly sponsored by French billionaire Francois Pinault, who owns more than a dozen of Koons' works.

Mr Koons, 53, one of the most sought after and expensive contemporary artists, told the French press his exhibition would help place his work "in the context of the history of art and of history full-stop".

His work includes a vast lobster, made from red aluminium floats which will be displayed above the Sale de Marts, and a nine foot-wide blue moon made of inox in the Hall of Mirrors where the end to the First World War was signed.

One sculpture too large to fit into the palace, Split Rock, a 25ft high 11 ton half-horse half-dinosaur, made from flower pots and wood, has been erected in the gardens of the Orangerie in the palace ground, with more than 90,000 petunias and geraniums planted in the pots for the duration of the exhibition.

The exhibition has attracted criticism however from the far-right of France.

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August 2nd, 2018

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