JEFF KOONS

Executed in 1991, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3 and one artist proof.
PROVENANCE

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above
EXHIBITED



New York, Sonnabend Gallery; Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, Made in Heaven, 1991 (another example)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons Andy Warhol: Flowers, November - December 2002, pp. 22-23, illustrated in color and pp. 20-21 (illustration in color of installation at Gagosian Gallery, New York)

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum [and traveling], Jeff Koons, 1992, p. 83, illustrated in color (another example)
Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [and traveling], Jeff Koons, 1992, cat. no. 67, pl. no. 53, illustrated in color (another example)
Robert Rosenblum and Jeff Koons, Jeff Koons Handbook, London, 1992, illustrated in color
A. Muthesius, Jeff Koons, Cologne, 1992, pl. no. 21, p. 140, illustrated in color and p. 141 (illustration in color of installation at Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne)
Hildegund Amanshauser, "Pornographic Scenes of a Normal Married Life," Camera Austria, May 1992, p. 44, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, 1997, n.p., illustrated in color (another example)
CATALOGUE NOTE



As a metaphor for female sexuality, for the human life cycle, and as a symbol of growth and beauty, flowers have played an important role for numerous artists over the course of art history. From his earliest inflatable works to his more recent large-scale outdoor sculptures such as Puppy (1992) and Balloon Flower (1997), floral motifs have been a recurring subject for Jeff Koons. They are scattered about the base of Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988), and a number of his other Banality sculptures, and they figure prominently in a number of works that Jeff Koons grouped together with the fateful title Made in Heaven.

In 1989 a New York City billboard on Broadway was unveiled as Jeff Koons’ contribution to the Whitney Museum’s Image World exhibition. The large image is one that seems to advertise a film entitled "Made In Heaven," starring the famous young artist and the famous Italian porn star Ciccolina. The artist is naked, the porn star is dressed in lacy white underwear. They lie together on a large bronze rock-like form, a commercially illustrated wind mural swoops into the composition all around them. The image is part Harlequin Romance Novel cover and pure post-modern irony at its best. It recalls many canonized images stored in our collective pop-culture memory bank; yet, it is strikingly different and it appears in a different context from those things to which it refers. The poster teases. It reveals very little about the meaning or content of the mysterious project it serves to illustrate and promote, Made in Heaven, and it ultimately leaves its viewer with more questions than answers.

Two years later, in 1991, Jeff Koons’ Made in Heaven exhibition opened simultaneously in New York and Cologne, and the expectations were incredibly high for the seemingly unstoppable artist. His previous show, Banality, had been his most critically and commercially successful one to date, and it had been three years since Koons had exhibited in a commercial gallery. The billboard, along with a sampling of works from the Made in Heaven series shown at the Venice Biennale in 1990, had left people wanting more, and now, finally, Koons gave his audience, as always, that which they most desired. In his most daring and self-implicating move yet, Koons delivered his most controversial body of work.

Made in Heaven presented an ambitious and highly varied number of new works in two and three dimensions. Starring Koons and La Ciccolina (the couple were now married) as promised in the billboard, large photographically produced paintings and life-size sculptures showed the stars engaged in various sexual positions. A number of sculptural works in wood, marble and glass rounded out the show balancing blatant sexual content with demure suggestiveness. The show and the body of work itself marked a turning point for Koons: a shift towards the personal and autobiographical, a full embrace of spectacle, and a natural historical adjustment from the eighties into the nineties.

One work from the series, Mound of Flowers is an organic liquid bouquet of glass petals and leaves. It comfortably situates itself, as to be expected from Koons, on the border between high and low, a tribute at once to kitsch and to Baroque and Rococo decorative motif. It borrows from the typical kitsch vernacular of ornamental glass, but heightens and stretches the form to unprecedented levels. In reference to the work, Koons explains, ``I am trying to capture the individual’s desire in the object, and to fix his or her aspirations in the surface, in a condition of immortality.’’ (Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Jean de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, 1997, n.p.)

Koons’ words touch on themes of desire, surface and immortality, themes that can be seen in all of his work that leads up to this point. They are themes that figure prevalently in Mound of Flowers. Koons immaculately infuses this work with desire, using the work’s surface, and contrasting ideas about beauty and the grotesque, as his raw material. Mound of Flowers performs for its audience like any great spectacle: it evokes both positive and negative reactions that ultimately add up to a very engaging event. Its surface glistens and shines, appearing to be wet and begging to be touched. Each flower is open, asking to be gazed upon, ultimately suggestive of sexual entry. Simultaneous to its functioning as a mound of seduction, the work operates within another realm of desire: the grotesque. Its surface is so shiny that light itself reflects off of it, its brilliant colors are jarringly saturated.

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Guide to Pronouncing Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs

Guide to Pronunciations for Tobacco Products, Alcohol & Drugs

in SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health

Brands of Tobacco:
Antonio y Cleopatra	an–toe–nee–o ee clee–o–pah–tra
Capri	ca–pree
Casa Silva	kah–sah sil–vah
Copenhagen	kope–en–hay–gun
Cuesta–Rey	kwes–ta ray
Doral	door–al
El Producto	ell pro–duck–to
Garcia y Vega	gar–see–ah ee vay–gah
Havatampa	hav–ah–tam–pah
La Corona	la kah–rone–ah
Macanudos	mack–a–noo–doze
Partagas	par–tay–gahs
Rigoletto	rig–o–let–o
Tijuana Smalls	tee–ya–wan–ah smalls
Viceroy	vice–a–roy
Alcoholic Beverages:
Cassis	kah–sees
Cognac	kon–yak
Creme de menthe	krem–duh–menth
Drambuie	dram–boo–ee
Grand Marnier	grand marn–nee–ay
Kahlua	kah–loo–ah
Lager	lah–gur
Liqueurs	li–koors
Muscadine	mus–ka–dine
Schnapps	shnops
Scuppernong	skupp–er–nong
Vermouth	ver–mooth
Illicit Drugs:
Hallucinogen	ha–loo–sin–oh–jin
Hashish	hash–eesh
Heroin	hair–roh–in
Marijuana	mare–ah–wan–ah
Mescaline	mess–ka–lin
Peyote	pay–yo–tee
Phencyclidine	fen–sigh–kluh–deen
Psilocybin	sill–oh–sigh–bin
Inhalants:
Aerosol spray	air–uh–sol spray
Amyl Nitrite	am–mill nigh–trite
Anesthetic	an–ness–thet–ick
Ether	ee–thur
Halothane	hal–oh–thane
Inhalant	in–hay–lunt
Lacquer thinner	lack–er thin–ner
Nitrous oxide	nigh–truss ock–side
Toluene	tall–yoo–een
Whippets	whip–ets
Prescription Pain Relievers:
Analgesic	an–nul–jee–zick
Darvocet–N	dar–voh–set–n
Darvon	dar–von
Demerol	dem–er–all
Dilaudid	dye–law–did
Fioricet	fee–or–i–set
Fiorinal	fee–or–i–nall
Hydrocodone	high–dro–koh–done
Lorcet	lore–set
Lortab	lore–tab
Methadone	meth–uh–done
Morphine	more–feen
Opiates	oh–pee–yuts
OxyContin	ock–see–con–tin
Percocet	per–koh–set
Percodan	per–koh–dan
Phenaphen with Codeine	fen–a–fen with koh–deen
Propoxyphene	pro–pocks–i–feen
Stadol	stay–doll
Talacen	tal–uh–sin
Talwin	tall–win
Talwin NX	tall–win–n–x
Tramadol	tram–uh–doll
Tylenol with Codeine	tie–luh–nall with koh–deen
Tylox	tie–locks
Ultram	ul–trum
Vicodin	vigh–kuh–din
Prescription Tranquilizers:
Alprazolam	al–pra–zoe–lam
Atarax	at–uh–racks
Ativan	at–uh–van
BuSpar	byoo–spar
Clonazepam	kluh–na–zuh–pam
Diazepam	die–az–uh–pam
Equanil	eh–kwuh–nill
Flexeril	fleck–suh–rill
Klonopin	klaw–nuh–pin
Librium	lib–ree–um
Limbitrol	lim–bi–trall
Lorazepam	luh–raz–uh–pam
Meprobamate	meh–pro–bam–ate
Rohypnol	roh–hip–nall
Serax	seer–racks
Soma	so–muh
Tranquilizer	trang–kwuh–lie–zer
Tranxene	tran–zeen
Valium	val–ee–um
Vistaril	vis–tah–rill
Xanax	zan–acks
Prescription Stimulants:
Amphetamines	am–fet–uh–meens
Benzedrine	ben–zah–dreen
Biphetamine	bye–fet–uh–meen
Cylert	sigh–lert
Desoxyn	deh–zocks–in
Dexamyl	decks–uh–mill
Dexedrine	decks–uh–dreen
Dextroamphetamine	decks–tro–am–fet–uh–meen
Didrex	die–drecks
Eskatrol	ess–kah–troll
Fastin	fass–tin
Ionamin	eye–own–uh–min
Mazanor	maz–uh–nor
Methamphetamine	meth–am–fet–uh–meen
Methedrine	meth–uh–dreen
Methylphenidate	meth–ill–fen–i–date
Obedrin – L.A.	o–bed–rin – L.A.
Phentermine	fen–ter–meen
Plegine	pleh–zjeen
Preludin	pray–loo–din
Ritalin	rit–uh–lin
Sanorex	san–uh–recks
Stimulant	stim–yoo–lunt
Tenuate	ten–you–ate
Prescription Sedatives:
Amytal	am–ih–tall
Barbiturates	bar–bit–chyoo–ruts or bar–bi–choo–its
Butalbital	byoo–tal–bi–tall
Butisol	byoo–ti–zall
Chloral Hydrate	klor–al high–drate
Dalmane	doll–main
Halcion	hal–see–on
Methaqualone	meth–ack–wuh–lone
Nembutal Sodium	nem–byoo–tall–so–dee–um
Pentobarbital	pen–toe–bar–bi–tall
Phenobarbital	fee–noh–bar–bi–tall
Placidyl	pla–si–dill
Quaalude	kway–lood
Restoril	res–toh–rill
Secobarbital	seh–koh–bar–bi–tall
Seconal	seh–kuh–nall
Sedative	seh–duh–tiv
Sopor	so–pore
Temazepam	tuh–maz–i–pam
Tuinal	two–in–all
Other Words:
CHAMPUS	champ–us
CHAMPVA	champ–vuh or champ–V.A.

 

Complete alphabetical listing

Aerosol spray	air–uh–sol spray
Alprazolam	al–pra–zoe–lam
Amphetamines	am–fet–uh–meens
Amyl Nitrite	am–mill nigh–trite
Amytal	am–ih–tall
Analgesic	an–nul–jee–zick
Anesthetic	an–ness–thet–ick
Antonio y Cleopatra	an–toe–nee–o ee clee–o–pah–tra
Atarax	at–uh–racks
Ativan	at–uh–van
Barbiturates	bar–bit–chyoo–ruts or bar–bi–choo–its
Benzedrine	ben–zah–dreen
Biphetamine	bye–fet–uh–meen
BuSpar	byoo–spar
Butalbital	byoo–tal–bi–tall
Butisol	byoo–ti–zall
Capri	ca–pree
Casa Silva	kah–sah sil–vah
Cassis	kah–sees
CHAMPUS	champ–us
CHAMPVA	champ–vuh or champ–V.A.
Chloral Hydrate	klor–al high–drate
Clonazepam	kluh–na–zuh–pam
Cognac	kon–yak
Copenhagen	kope–en–hay–gun
Creme de menthe	krem–duh–menth
Cuesta–Rey	kwes–ta ray
Cylert	sigh–lert
Dalmane	doll–main
Darvocet–N	dar–voh–set–n
Darvon	dar–von
Demerol	dem–er–all
Desoxyn	deh–zocks–in
Dexamyl	decks–uh–mill
Dexedrine	decks–uh–dreen
Dextroamphetamine	decks–tro–am–fet–uh–meen
Diazepam	die–az–uh–pam
Didrex	die–drecks
Dilaudid	dye–law–did
Doral	door–al
Drambuie	dram–boo–ee
El Producto	ell pro–duck–to
Equanil	eh–kwuh–nill
Eskatrol	ess–kah–troll
Ether	ee–thur
Fastin	fass–tin
Fioricet	fee–or–i–set
Fiorinal	fee–or–i–nall
Flexeril	fleck–suh–rill
Garcia y Vega	gar–see–ah ee vay–gah
Grand Marnier	grand marn–nee–ay
Halcion	hal–see–on
Hallucinogen	ha–loo–sin–oh–jin
Halothane	hal–oh–thane
Hashish	hash–eesh
Havatampa	hav–ah–tam–pah
Heroin	hair–roh–in
Hydrocodone	high–dro–koh–done
Inhalant	in–hay–lunt
Ionamin	eye–own–uh–min
Kahlua	kah–loo–ah
Klonopin	klaw–nuh–pin
La Corona	la kah–rone–ah
Lacquer thinner	lack–er thin–ner
Lager	lah–gur
Librium	lib–ree–um
Limbitrol	lim–bi–trall
Liqueurs	li–koors
Lorazepam	luh–raz–uh–pam
Lorcet	lore–set
Lortab	lore–tab
Macanudos	mack–a–noo–doze
Marijuana	mare–ah–wan–ah
Mazanor	maz–uh–nor
Meprobamate	meh–pro–bam–ate
Mescaline	mess–ka–lin
Methadone	meth–uh–done
Methamphetamine	meth–am–fet–uh–meen
Methaqualone	meth–ack–wuh–lone
Methedrine	meth–uh–dreen
Methylphenidate	meth–ill–fen–i–date
Morphine	more–feen
Muscadine	mus–ka–dine
Nembutal Sodium	nem–byoo–tall–so–dee–um
Nitrous oxide	nigh–truss ock–side
Obedrin – L.A.	o–bed–rin – L.A.
Opiates	oh–pee–yuts
OxyContin	ock–see–con–tin
Partagas	par–tay–gahs
Pentobarbital	pen–toe–bar–bi–tall
Percocet	per–koh–set
Percodan	per–koh–dan
Peyote	pay–yo–tee
Phenaphen with Codeine	fen–a–fen with koh–deen
Phencyclidine	fen–sigh–kluh–deen
Phenobarbital	fee–noh–bar–bi–tall
Phentermine	fen–ter–meen
Placidyl	pla–si–dill
Plegine	pleh–zjeen
Preludin	pray–loo–din
Propoxyphene	pro–pocks–i–feen
Psilocybin	sill–oh–sigh–bin
Quaalude	kway–lood
Restoril	res–toh–rill
Rigoletto	rig–o–let–o
Ritalin	rit–uh–lin
Rohypnol	roh–hip–nall
Sanorex	san–uh–recks
Schnapps	shnops
Scuppernong	skupp–er–nong
Secobarbital	seh–koh–bar–bi–tall
Seconal	seh–kuh–nall
Sedative	seh–duh–tiv
Serax	seer–racks
Soma	so–muh
Sopor	so–pore
Stadol	stay–doll
Stimulant	stim–yoo–lunt
Talacen	tal–uh–sin
Talwin	tall–win
Talwin NX	tall–win–n–x
Temazepam	tuh–maz–i–pam
Tenuate	ten–you–ate
Tijuana Smalls	tee–ya–wan–ah smalls
Toluene	tall–yoo–een
Tramadol	tram–uh–doll
Tranquilizer	trang–kwuh–lie–zer
Tranxene	tran–zeen
Tuinal	two–in–all
Tylenol with Codeine	tie–luh–nall with koh–deen
Tylox	tie–locks
Ultram	ul–trum
Valium	val–ee–um
Vermouth	ver–mooth
Viceroy	vice–a–roy
Vicodin	vigh–kuh–din
Vistaril	vis–tah–rill
Whippets	whip–ets
Xanax	zan–acks

2003 NSDUH FI Manual - Appendix E. NSDUH Guide to Pronunciations