By accident, a woman broke a Jeff Koons sculpture

Every museum visitor’s nightmare has come true. A woman who visited the fair Art Wynwood from Miami accidentally broke a sculpture of the American Jeff Koon valued at $42,000. To everyone’s relief, she won’t have to pay for it, local media reported. This is because the carving was assured.

The sculpture in question was a piece of porcelain Balloon Dogabout 38 centimeters high and blue in color, was part of the pieces that were going to be exhibited at the fair Art Wynwood Miami, in South Florida, which opened the doors of its tenth edition last Friday.

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As soon as it hit the ground, the piece shattered. “I saw this woman spinning her figure, then she fell and broke,” the artist and art collector told local broadcaster WSVN. stephen gamsonone of the witnesses of the incident which occurred Thursday evening, during the opening of the fair.

As reported gamsonAt first they thought it was a “performance” of the gallery stand Bel-Air Fine Arts, who exhibited the sculpture at the fair and everyone was surprised to learn the truth. The vandalized artwork is a miniature replica of the popular balloon dog sculpture from Koon 3.5 meters high and made of polished stainless steel, which is exposed in Angels (California).

The artist, born in Pennsylvania and who resides in the city of new Yorkmade from the second half of the 1990s these emblematic sculptures of different sizes representing animals, mostly in stainless steel and with a finish similar to the effect of a mirror or glass.

Source: EFE

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