Last fall Jeff Koons gave to his sculpture. More precisely, not the sculpture, and the idea of sculpture. City need to raise $3.9 million for installation

The ceremony of gift giving from the most commercially successful artists of the living by Jeff Koons (his "Dog of balloons (Orange)" was sold for a record for a living artist at $58.4 per million) took place in November 2016 with the participation of the American Ambassador Jane D. Hartley (resigned with the team Obama) and mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.

12-метровая the sculpture "tulips" in the form of a hand with a bouquet of colorful balloons, according to Koons, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks of 2015 in Paris. And yet this kind of "Alaverdi" to Paris for his last gift of the new-Йорку: the hand in the sculpture Koons recalls gripping the torch hand of the statue of Liberty — famous gift of the Parisians to the people of new-Йорка.

However, the Parisian Statue of Liberty is really presented, and with the gift of life all the more complicated. In Dar presented the concept of the work. But on the way of its realization there are some obstacles. Including the material plane. To date, the Fonds Pour Paris ("Paris") involved in attracting private donations for public projects in the city have collected only 3 million euros needed for the installation works of Koons. Not enough another 500 thousand euros. Another problem — place for installation. The selected artist the area between the two modern art museums (one of them — Palais de Tokyo), and even boasts a view of the Eiffel tower, but to install 30-тонной the sculpture. Under this place there are underground exhibition halls, and would charge them to install support columns. The Museum is not ready to go.

Parisian cultural figures of the majority of the future sculpture Koons speak very cautiously. But those who speak critically, openly talking about the fact that the work was the city, in fact, imposed on and that win here more Sam Koons (get free publicity) and not Paris. "They presented this bouquet to Paris as a symbolic gift, but then we realized that it's not really a gift, because France must pay for its installation", — said art-критик Isabelle Pasquier, the radio station France Inter.

advocates of the project hope that "Bunch of tulips" will be installed in 2018.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: nytimes.com, artinvestment.ru