TICKETS are on sale for a major Ashmolean Museum exhibition of the work of American artist Jeff Koons.
Curated by the artist himself, together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, the show will feature 17 important works, 14 of which have never been exhibited in the UK before.
They span the artist’s entire career and his most well-known series including Equilibrium, Statuary, Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball sculptures and paintings.
The exhibition will run from February 7 to June 9.
Dr Xa Sturgis, director of the Ashmolean, said earlier: “In showing Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, the world’s oldest public museum where the collections range from prehistory to the present, this exhibition will provoke a conversation between his work and the history of art and ideas with which his work engages.
“I am sure it will also provoke conversations among those who see it.”
Jeff Koons burst onto the contemporary art scene in the 1980s and has been described as the most famous, important, subversive, controversial and expensive artist in the world.
From his earliest works the artist has explored the ‘readymade’ and creating painstaking replicas of ancient sculptures and Old Master paintings.
For more visit ashmolean.org
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