JEFF KOONS (b. 1955, USA),

'Rabbit', 2000

LIMITED EDITION Artists' Tie

This 100% silk tie is screenprint SIGNED 'Jeff Koons' on the back. Limited edition of 300. Numbered '094' on accompanying certificate. Made in Italy. The tie measures 4" at its widest point. BRAND NEW. Buyer pays $5 U.S. shipping via USPS Priority Mail.

A GREAT & ORIGINAL GIFT ITEM!!!

Cultural Ties was an exciting and unique fusion of art and fashion. This imaginative global project was the brain child of London art dealer Kapil Jariwala: the brief was for seventy-seven leading artists from around the world to design neck tie mock-ups which were translated into textile format by Como, Italy's Ratti silk factory. A limited edition, only 300 of each tie, were produced and sold worldwide via selected retail outlets, gallery shops and the internet. The project, in association with UNICEF, was supported by Gavin Aldred, owner of the Westzonegalleryspace, where the artwork for the project was exhibited, and Westzone Publishing Ltd. 

"Art and fashion have come together for Cultural Ties, a project that aims to raise $1m (about pounds 700,000) for Unicef's clean-water campaign. Artists such as the Chapman Brothers, Jeff Koons and Louise Bourgeois have each come up with a unique design for a necktie, and these have been produced in a limited-edition of 300 by Versace's tie-maker. This wearable art will go on display at London's Jariwala Westzone gallery and via www.culturalties.com. The pounds 250 price tag might not be cheap, but it's for a good cause."

-- Independent, The (London), November 12, 2000

Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, PA and studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He gained recognition in the 1980s and subsequently set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York. Koons' studio is staffed with over 30 assistants, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work - similar to Andy Warhol’s Factory or the studio of Damien Hirst.

Working in thematic series since the early 1980s, Koons has explored notions of consumerism, taste, banality, childhood and sexuality. He is known for his meticulously fabricated works that draw from a variety of objects and images from American and consumer culture.

Many of the world’s leading institutions such as: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMMA), CA; The National Gallery, Washington DC; and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain house collections of Jeff Koon’s oeuvre. Since 2008, his work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and Chateau de Versailles, France.

Chicago, New York and Paris recently embraced the work of Jeff Koons with each city hosting a solo exhibition of the great artist who has had a very illustrius career to date. First there was more love for the artist in his residing city New York with 'Jeff Koons on the Roof' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4/29 - 10/26/2008. Koons then moved onto the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago which presented Koons work from 5/31 - 9/21/2008. Last, and by no means least, a self entitled exhibition 'Jeff Koons' was the main attraction at Chateau de Versailles, France 9/10 - 12/14/2008.

'Jeff Koons: Celebration' was recently on view at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2008/2009) and 'Jeff Koons: Popeye' at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, 7/2 - 9/13/2009.

Jeff Koons is showing at the Tate Modern, London as part of the 'Artist Rooms' collection display which opened in April 2009. Koons will also participate in the 'Pop Life: Art in a Material World' exhibition, 10/1/2009 - 1/17/2010, also at the Tate Modern.

'Jeff Koons: New Paintings' is on view at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 11/14/2009 - 1/9/2010.

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