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Changing the gallery space for a transparent box in space, the American artist Jeff Koons now has one of his works of art on the moon.
On Thursday, a sculpture called “Moon Phases” boarded the Odysseus lunar lander as it landed on the moon. It marked the first US landing on the lunar surface in more than 50 years.
The artwork shows 125 mini moon sculptures contained in a box, measuring approximately one inch in diameter. “Moon Phases” shows 62 phases of the moon as seen from Earth, 62 phases visible from other points of view in space, and a lunar eclipse.
Each sculpture is inscribed with the name of a groundbreaking figure in human history, including Aristotle, David Bowie, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Billie Holiday, Gabriel García Márquez, Andy Warhol and Virginia Woolf. Koons “has been inspired by the Moon as a symbol of curiosity and determination,” according to a statement from his gallery, Pace.
But the art market couldn’t do much with remote sculptures “on display” in outer space, so Koons’ project also has a commercial component. Pace Verso, Pace’s NFT wing, is also offering NFTs of each sculpture, while Koons has produced larger, matching physical sculptures of his “Moon Phases” to remain on Earth.
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