{"id":19616,"date":"2020-03-26T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palazzostrozzi.org\/jeff-koons-italy-you-can-do-this\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:44:32","slug":"jeff-koons-italy-you-can-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palazzostrozzi.org\/en\/jeff-koons-italy-you-can-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Koons: Italy you can do this!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u201cItaly, you can do this!\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 with such words Jeff Koons addresses Italy within the Palazzo Strozzi online project IN TOUCH<\/em><\/a>. The American artist will be the main subject of the next Autumn Palazzo Strozzi exhibition and his message shows awareness of the Coronavirus emergency but at the same time incites<\/strong> trust<\/strong> and underlines the strength of the Italian people. The extraordinary value of Italy’s cultural contribution to the world becomes for him a tool to face this crisis in his outcome, exhorting to make Italy a guide for a new “way in the future”<\/strong>.\n\n
https:\/\/www.palazzostrozzi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20200325_O_ENG_IN-CONTATTO_Jeff-Koons_DEF.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\nI know that Italy is going through a lot right now and you have tremendous strength and you\u2019re able to face the coronavirus and eventually will be able to defeat the virus. Italy is such an amazing country and as people you\u2019ve gone through so much and you will defeat the virus. Culturally, the whole world is so appreciative of everything that you have given to us. And in the future, Palazzo Strozzi and all the other wonderful Italian institutions will also be able to give humankind a light, a direction in which we\u2019ll be able to find our way in the future.\n<\/em>So, we thank you Italy for all your cultural contributions.\n<\/em>Palazzo Strozzi, thank you. I look forward so much to the future of your museum. <\/em>Italy you can do this!<\/em>\n\nScheduled at Palazzo Strozzi in autumn 2020, Jeff Koons. Shine<\/em><\/strong> is a groundbreaking\u00a0exhibition dedicated to the American artist, the largest exhibition of his work ever hosted in Italy. Developed in close dialogue with Koons himself, and curated by Arturo Galansino and Joachim Pissarro, the exhibition will bring to Florence some of the most celebrated works of this master who, from the mid 1970s until the present day, forged a reputation as one of the most important figures of the global contemporary art scene.\n\n\"\n

Jeff Koons,\u00a0Rabbit<\/i>, 1986, Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\nPhoto by Nathan Keay, \u00a9 MCA Chicago, \u00a9 Jeff Koons<\/p>\nAn artist that have entered our collective imagination, largely thanks to his unique and deft ability to marry high and popular culture, Koons regards \u201cshine\u201d as a key feature of his artwork. Indeed, \u201cshine\u201d is far more than an ornament and becomes the very substance of his art, as this reflective property brings together appearance and essence, splendorous and gleaming, being and seeming: an ambiguous game that characterizes Koons\u2019s work in questioning our relationship with daily reality and with the very concept of a work of art.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cItaly, you can do this!\u201d \u2013 with such words Jeff Koons addresses Italy within the Palazzo Strozzi online project IN TOUCH. 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