Jeff Koons also sought to achieve balance in works that feature basketballs floating inside water tanks in a delicate equilibrium that can be upset by temperature fluctuations or vibrations. To design them, he consulted with Nobel laureate physicist Richard P. Feynman.
1985. EXHIBITED: Jeff Koons : A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015] (Edition 3) Jeff Koons : A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27 – October 19, 2014] (Edition 3) Jeff Koons : The Sculptor.
This is one of a series of tanks Koons made in 1985 for his first solo exhibition, entitled Equilibrium, at the New York gallery, International With Monuments. The tanks, glass vitrines supported on black steel stands, were made in three sizes, holding one, two or three professional basketballs.
4/29/2016 · Jeff Koons and curator Jeffrey Deitch discuss One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, an ‘instantly iconic’ work that broke all the rules of its time — offered in Bound to Fail on 8 May at Christie’s New York Defying the rules of gravity, a lone basketball hovers at the absolute centre of a tank filled with water.
Jeff Koons – Artwork: Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Dr. J Silver Series) Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Dr. J Silver Series) glass, steel, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, three basketballs. 60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches.
Jeff Koons – Artwork: One Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series) One Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series) glass, steel, distilled water, one basketball. 64 3/4 x 30 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. 164.5.
In Jeff Koons …floor polishers in vitrines his Equilibrium series (1985) consisted of cast bronze flotation devices and basketballs suspended in fluid and his Made in Heaven series (1990–91) was a group of erotic paintings and sculptures of Koons and his.
Jeff Koons : Retrospective. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany [March 12 – April 18, 1993] Jeff Koons : Retrospective. Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark [January 22 – February 28, 1993] Jeff Koons : Retrospective. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California [December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993] Equilibrium . International With Monument Gallery, New York, New York [1985], EXHIBITED: Surrealism: The Conjured Life. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [November 21, 2015 – June 5, 2016] (Edition 3) Jeff Koons : A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015] (Edition 2) Jeff Koons : A Retrospective.
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