Jeff Koons, Hulk Elvis: Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, November 6 - December 20, 2014

"Gagosian Hong Kong is pleased to present 'Hulk Elvis,' Jeff Koons's first major solo exhibition in Asia ... Works from the ongoing series Hulk Elvis range from precision-machined bronze sculptures--inspired by an inflatable of the popular comic book hero and extruded in three di...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sternthal, Rebecca (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Chinese
Veröffentlicht: Hong Kong Gagosian Gallery [2015]
New York, NY Rizzoli [2015]
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Zusammenfassung:"Gagosian Hong Kong is pleased to present 'Hulk Elvis,' Jeff Koons's first major solo exhibition in Asia ... Works from the ongoing series Hulk Elvis range from precision-machined bronze sculptures--inspired by an inflatable of the popular comic book hero and extruded in three dimensions--to large-scale paintings that dazzle with energy and exactitude yet mystify with complex permutations and combinations of figurative and abstract elements. The sculptures, whose polychromed surfaces mimic the gloss of vinyl inflatables, pair the Hulk superhero with incongruous props: a wheelbarrow filled with live flowers, a crew of inflatable toy animals, a precise replica of the Liberty Bell. In Hulk (Organ) (2004-14), keys, pipes, and a pedalboard jut out from the figure's torso, legs, and shoulders; as the title suggests, the sculpture doubles as a fully-functioning instrument ... In Hulk Elvis paintings, a charged mix of nudes and inflatable animals jostle against realistically rendered landscapes, magnified gestural brushwork, and underlying dot screens. Titles--Landscape (Waterfall II) (2007), Couple (Dots) Landscape (2009)--string together dominant compositional elements. The exuberance of image and texture is rendered, paradoxically, with an uncanny level of precision into a wealth of smooth, vivid detail, and images are manipulated and interwoven into volatile palimpsests of color and form. In these spectacular pictorial inventions--which reject any attempt by the eye to find a resting place--silhouettes slice through multiple layers, contours of images surface rhythmically across the field of vision, and forms loom and recede in the swirling fervor of color and line."--Gagosian Gallery website
Beschreibung:Edition statement from publisher's website. - "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Jeff Koons Hulk Elvis, November 6-December 20, 2014, Gagosian Gallery, 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong"--Colophon. - Includes essay: The Hulks in Hong Kong / by Philip Tinari
Beschreibung:52 Seiten 35 cm
ISBN:9780847847020
0847847020

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