Oceana Bal Harbour lends "Pluto and Proserpina" to Bal Harbour Shops
PLUTO AND PROSERPINA
Pluto and Proserpina, 2010-2013
By Jeff Koons
Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating and live flowering plants
129 x 65 3/4 x 56 5/8 inches (327.7 x 167 x 143.8 cm)
Owned by Oceana Bal Harbour residents
Pluto and Proserpina in BAL HARBOUR SHOPS | PHOTO BY NADIA BOUZID
Bal Harbour Shops|| Photo by NB
PLUTO AND PROSERPINA WILL BE DISPLAYED PERMANENTLY
>>> AT THE OCEANA BAL HARBOUR
ADDRESS: 10201 Collins Ave. [ Bal Harbour, FL ] 33154
LOCATION : Less than a mile from Bal Harbour Shops, directly on Bal Harbour beach, and just moments from Haulover Park and the inlet, life here is a 360-degree panorama of carefree glamour.
FLOORS: 28
UNITS: 40 oceanfront
- 25 floors of mixed 1, 2, 3 & 4 bedrooms apartments, with maid quarters
- 1 floor with 4 Penthouse and 2 floors with 4 Duplex Upper-Penthouses.
MAINTENANCE FEE: $0.95 per sq. ft.
ABOUT JEFF KOONS [via oceanabalharbour.com]
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the world’s most iconic, influential, and controversial artists of the postwar era. The American contemporary artist is most known for his works of stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. Born in York, Pennsylvania, Koons made a name for himself through working with everyday objects and focusing on themes that revolve around self-acceptance and transcendence.
Koons recently broke a world record for his piece, Balloon Dog (Orange), which is now the most expensive artwork by a living artist ever to sell at auction, having sold for $58.4 million. His most comprehensive retrospective to date was exhibited at the Whitney Museum in June 2014 and continued to the Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Oceana Bal Harbour joins the exclusive company of world-famous museums and galleries by becoming the permanent home of not one, but two, Jeff Koons original sculptures. The sculptures will take center stage in the building’s 60-foot-tall outdoor breezeway.
Regarding the installation of Pluto and Proserpina and Seated Ballerina at Oceana Bal Harbour, Jeff Koons said:
Oceana Bal Harbour is a fantastic example of how art can function. People aren’t always able to give a sculpture that opportunity to display itself; to be able to design architecture that gives a place an emotional home for art where it’s really part of the essence of the location. It’s a place where artwork can really interact with residences’ daily life
PLUTO AND PROSERPINA BY JEFF KOONS
Owned by Oceana Bal Harbour residents
Pluto and Proserpina is a stainless-steel sculpture that stands over 10 feet tall created by iconic American artist Jeff Koons, which is installed in the central heartbeat of Oceana Bal Harbour, gracing the buildings soaring outdoor breezeway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with vibrant Collins Avenue.
Estimated to become one of the most valuable pieces of art ever created by Koons, Pluto & Proserpina made its debut at the Whitney Museum in New York City in June 2014 as part of the opening of Koons’s highly publicized exhibit, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The piece followed the exhibit on a tour to be enjoyed by millions of people at first-class museums all over the world, only to come home to Oceana Bal Harbour in 2016 for the residents who get to call it their own.
The larger-than-life sculpture was purchased by revered real estate magnate and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) museum-founder, Eduardo Costantini, for the residents of Oceana Bal Harbour. Costantini loaned the sculpture to the Whitney Museum, the Centre Pompidou Paris and the Guggenheim Bilbao. This marks the first time that a world-class work of art owned by residents of a development project was on loan for a global exhibition.
The piece is part of Jeff Koons’s acclaimed Antiquity series and is based off a porcelain sculpture of Pluto and Proserpina from the late 1700s in France. The artist embellished the sculpture with live flowering plants, emphasizing the relationship between life and art.
Jeff Koons states: “Pluto and Proserpina is really a symbol of the seasons and of the changing of life and the passions of life - the energy of life. It is continuation of life energy. The color yellow - gold - is like the sun - very, very bright in its intensity. You feel a continuation of life energy; it is about seasons changing, too – of going to the underworld and coming back up.” [VIA OCEANABALHARBOUR.COM]
PHOTO BY NADIA BOUZID || POPEYE || JEFF KOONS || WYNN RESORT LAS VEGAS
Steve Wynn acquired "Popeye" by Jeff Koons in a Sotheby's auction for $28,165,000 in 2014.
It now sits in the Wynn Las Vegas Casino, However there are rumors that he will be moved to the new Wynn Boston Harbor Casino, expected to completed in 2019. To be located along the banks of the Mystic River in Everett.
