Jeff Koons: Split Rocker

Published on the occasion of the installation of Jeff Koons' Split-Rocker at Rockefeller Center in New York City in association with Gagosian Gallery, this colorful new book will appeal to any fan of Koons' work, as well as those interested in contemporary art and landscape architecture. Consistent with Koons's persistent fascination with dichotomy and the in-between, the inspiration for Split-Rocker came when he decided to split and combine two similar but different toy rockers, a pony belonging to his son and a dinosaur ("Dino"). The slippage or "split" between the different halves of the heads gives an almost Cubist aspect to the composition. As the model was enlarged to the scale of a small house, the split became an opening, a profile, and a light shaft. - Hardcover - 56 Pages  - 12.7 x 0.5 x 10 inches - Published by Gagosian / Rizzoli, April 28, 2015 - Written by Larry Gagosian (Foreword), Jerry Speyer (Contributor), Nicholas Baume (Contributor), Jerome de Noirmont (Contributor), Laurent Le Bon (Contributor)