Jeff Koons Taps Spirit Ironworks to help recreate LIBERTY BELL Sculpture
From the Vanity Fair article How to Make a Koons
By
Jaime Lalinde
The Liberty Bell differs from Koons’s sculptures in one significant way: it is a near-perfect replica of an imperfect object. When making a faithful reproduction, Koons will often distort some other feature, like size (think: giant balloon dogs) or surface (giant, mirror-polished balloon dogs). His work also traffics in composite ideals—to create his eight-foot Balloon Venus he inflated and tied hundreds of balloons so that he could select the perfect buttocks, breast, and head of each. Liberty Bell is anything but ideal; in fact, the object’s most well-known feature is its flaw.