Dog Puppy, a floral topiary sculpture by Jeff Koons, stands guard in front of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain. In Puppy, Jeff Koons eng
Dog Puppy, a floral topiary sculpture by Jeff Koons, stands guard in front of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain. In Puppy, Jeff Koons engages both past and present, employing sophisticated computer modeling while referencing the 18th-century formal garden. A behemoth West Highland terrier carpeted in bedding plants, Puppy combines the most saccharine of iconography—flowers and puppies—in a monument to the sentimental. Its size—seemingly out-of-control (it is both literally and figuratively still growing) but carefully constructed and tightly contained—can be read as an analogue of contemporary culture. Dignified and stalwart, this work fills us with awe, and even joy, while standing guard at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In keeping with themes in his past work, Koons has, by combining elite references (topiary and dog breeding) with those of the masses (Chia Pets and Hallmark greeting cards), designed this public sculpture to relentlessly entice, to create optimism
Size: 8256px × 5504px
Photo credit: © Sergi Reboredo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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