The Colombian
It was not a “performance” that the visitors of the fair Art Wynwood in Miami they witnessed: a blue sculpture of a dog, inflatable-looking but made of glass, smashed to the ground following a visitor tripped over it in the exhibition space.
The work, a piece from Jeff Koons’ famous series titled “ballon dog,” had a value of $42,000 dollars, that the person responsible for breaking it should not pay since it was insured.
One of the visitors recounted that the woman touched the sculpture of 38 centimeters high and it collapsed breaking into pieces. In a video you can see when a local employee sweeps the fallen pieces on the floor amid the astonished looks of the attendees.
The exhibition took place last Thursday in the gallery Bel-Air. The newspaper El País points out that the artist Stephen Gamson, who was in the place, recorded the images and declared that for a moment he believed that it was a performance.
Jeff Koons (United States, 1955) is one of today’s most sought-following artists. In 2019, the Rabbit sculpture was purchased for 91 million dollars at the prestigious Christie’s auction house.
