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12/52 Jeff Koons

52 Weeks Project

On 25/02/2022 I came along this beautiful statue made by Jeff Koons and after one month minus one day I made this colorful selfportrait...
Location: Les Jardins des Champs-Élysées between Petit Palais and Concorde, Paris (France).
Coordinates: Click on the link to see the exact location on Google Maps:
48°51'55.3"N 2°18'59.7"E
Reason: I love this happy statue and the story behind it. And this was the right moment of the day with perfect light. On the morning of my 867th overnight in Paris.
Bouquet of Tulips: Bouquet of Tulips is a metal sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons, which is located outside the Petit Palais in Paris, France. It is one of Koons’s largest sculptures, and his first commemorative work. The sculpture was first announced in 2016 and unveiled in October 2019. The 11-meter-high sculpture of a hand clutching stylized flowers, modeled on the Statue of Liberty and made of polychromed bronze, aluminum and stainless steel, honors the victims of the November 2015 attacks. The bouquet features 11 flowers and not a dozen, with the missing 12th meant to represent the victims.
In 2019, Koons announced that 80% of the proceeds from selling the copyright of the artwork for commercial products depicting the sculpture will go to the victims’ families. The remaining 20% will be dedicated to its maintenance.
Koons announced the gift of a sculpture to the people of Paris in November 2016, after Jane D. Hartley, the United States ambassador to France at the time, had asked him to create a tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks in France in 2015 and 2016. Hartley had approached Koons after discussing the idea at a dinner in Paris in January 2016 with Jerry Speyer, then chairman of the board of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a collector of the artist’s work.
The city proposed several sites to Koons, and he chose the one on the plaza in front of the Palais de Tokyo for its symbolic value; also, the plaza is not restricted by historic preservation provisions. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo subsequently announced that the sculpture was to be installed in 2017 on the plaza in front of the Palais de Tokyo. However, the pavement turned out to be not strong enough to support the 34-ton sculpture and its 27-ton base. Also, there was criticism that the site had no connection with the attacks. In January 2018, 23 French artists, politicians and cultural figures – including the artist Christian Boltanski and a former culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand – asked for the plan to be abandoned, arguing in a letter to the newspaper Libération that the gift “was opportunistic and cynical.” A second open letter, published by Le Monde and signed by various other arts professionals, including Palais de Tokyo cofounder Jérôme Sans and artist Loris Gréaud, followed and was intended as a defense of Koons’s sculpture. The plan to place the sculpture in front of the Palais de Tokyo was dropped by Culture Minister Françoise Nyssen in May 2018.
The government’s alternative proposal to install the monument in Parc de la Villette was later rejected by city planners. Other venues that were under consideration included the Place des États-Unis. The venue finally chosen is between Place de la Concorde and the Petit Palais, near the Embassy of the United States. [Wikipedia]
Weather: Sunny, clear skies, 13° C (max this day was 18° C)
To Listen ♫: Skyhunter - Smile After Sadness (Caira Remix) (Youtube)
Self-portrait technics: Joby portable gorillapod placed on my crossover bag on the ground, self timer on 10 seconds.

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paris / Paris 01 Ancien - Quartier Tuileries (show map)

Taken on: March 24, 2022

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Camera: Sony ILCE-6300, f/16.0, 1/1250 sec, 29mm (=43mm), ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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Light Source:	Cloudy
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