A woman accidentally broke an American statue. Jeff Koons worth $42,000 which one was viewed miami art fair (USA), but for good luck you won’t have to pay for itas reported by local media.
The approximately 38 centimeters high and blue colored ‘Balloon Dog’ porcelain statue is among the works that will be exhibited at the Art Wynwood fair in Miami, South Florida, and opened its doors on Friday in its tenth edition. .
According to the local Miami Herald newspaper, the unidentified woman will not have to pay for the piece that was smashed to the ground because the statue is insured.
“I saw this woman there and hit her, and then the thing fell and broke into thousands of pieces,” artist and art collector Stephen Gamson, one of the witnesses to last night’s incident, told WSVN on Thursday. During the opening of the fair.
As Gamson recounts, many were surprised and began to think that it was an artistic ‘performance’. next to the Bel-Air Fine Arts gallery stand where the sculpture is displayed.
The destroyed artifact is a miniature replica of Koons’ popular 3-foot-tall balloon dog sculpture, made of polished stainless steel, on display in Los Angeles, California.
The Pennsylvania-born and New York-based artist has made these iconic sculptures in different sizes from the second half of the 1990s, mostly made of stainless steel and depicting animals with a stainless steel-like surface. mirror or glass.