{"id":96979,"date":"2026-10-01T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/?post_type=event&p=96979"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:26:00","slug":"closing-day-event-jeff-koons-venus-lespugue-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/draseis\/closing-day-event-jeff-koons-venus-lespugue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing day Event. Jeff Koons: \u2018Venus\u2019 Lespugue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Closing day Event. Jeff Koons: \u2018Venus\u2019 Lespugue <\/h1>

YOUNG FRIENDS, YOUNG PATRONS<\/p>

SEPTEMBER 2026<\/p><\/header>

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\n Our Cycladic Young joined a special event that took place on the day before the closing of our exhibition Jeff Koons: \u2018Venus\u2019 Lespugue. They enjoyed two private guided tours and drinks at the Stathatos Mansion.\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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The Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, is pleased to present Jeff Koons: \u2018Venus\u2019 Lespugue, marking the first public display of Balloon Venus Lespugue (Orange) (2013-2019) by Jeff Koons.<\/p>\n

Koons\u2019 Balloon Venus Lespugue (Orange) draws inspiration from the prehistoric Venus of Lespugue, a mammoth tusk ivory figurine that dates back approximately 28,000 years. Jeff Koons has been influenced by this figure since the late 1970s. In his series Antiquity, which he started in 2008, the artist\u2019s interpretation of the Venus of Lespugue engages a variety of art historical reference points, from Botticelli and Titian to Duchamp and Brancusi, where the notions of beauty and form play a central role. Through an intensive, yearslong process, Koons has transposed the fetishized original, renowned for its exaggerated curves, into a towering balloon sculpture of Giacometti-esque proportions.<\/p>\n

Next to Koons\u2019 work, the museum presents a series of ten Venus figurine copies from the Upper Paleolithic era, each on loan from museums that house the immovable originals. Among these will be the copy of the Venus of Lespugue from the Mus\u00e9um national d\u2019Histoire naturelle in Paris, which served as the direct source of inspiration for Koons\u2019 mirror-polished stainless-steel sculpture. The Venus figurines represent one of humanity\u2019s earliest aesthetic codes \u2013 a profound abstraction of fertility, survival, and continuity \u2013 made into something compact and portable. Koons\u2019 version revisits this prehistoric visual language through a radically different medium and context: the industrial, hyper-material world of the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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