Jeff Koons 'Lobster' Sculpture

Artist: Jeff Koons
Title: Lobster
Medium: Porcelain Sculpture
Size: 26 x 85 x 59 cm
Edition: 99
Prices: €85,000

   

Jeff Koons is an American artist born in Pennsylvania in 1955 who has spent four decades transforming everyday objects into monumental declarations of beauty and desire. After studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, he moved to New York and worked on Wall Street while inventing works that celebrated mass production. His practice embraces stainless steel sculptures that mirror viewers and their surroundings, turning banal items into radiant icons.

Koons gained international notice with the Rabbit, a sleek metallic hare that distilled childhood memory into flawless form. He continued to mine popular culture, inflating pool toys and cartoon figures to architectural scale, insisting that pleasure and contemplation can coexist. The lobster, rendered in vivid red and stretching several meters, exemplifies his approach: the crustacean, familiar from seafood restaurants and seaside postcards, becomes an object of wonder through exacting fabrication and placement. Its shell gleams under gallery lights, inviting thoughts about appetite, luxury and the moment when nourishment turns into spectacle.

Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Bilbao have traced his evolution from ready made displays to intricate Baroque inspired compositions. Critics debate the line between sincerity and irony in his output, yet audiences continue to flock, drawn by the generosity of color, scale and reflection. Whether he is planting a topiary puppy outside a museum or suspending a basketball in distilled water, Koons invites viewers to reconsider what deserves attention and to find joy in the objects that surround daily life.