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Mazarredo Zumarkalea, 66, Abando, 48009 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
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attractions: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, "Maman" de Louise Bourgeois, Bizkaia Aretoa, Federico Moyúa enparantza, CarrerasMugica, Iglesia de San José de la Montaña, Zubizuri, Rekalde Aretoa, Space Ilusiona Zubiarte, restaurants: La Casita de Sabino, Amorino Gelato - Bilbao Guggenheim, Restaurante Porrue, Pizzeria La Foca Nicanora, Bistró, Cokooncafé, ARVO Specialty Coffee (Guggenheim), Gastrobar Abadía, COPPOLA & SOLOMONK (NON STOP KITCHEN), Gelati!! Gelati!! Heladería Italiana Guggenheim Bilbao, local businesses: THE ROMBO CODE ESCAPE ROOM BILBAO, Souvenirs Recuerda Bilbao, Confitería Gloria, Zubiarte merkataritza-zentroa, SuperCor Exprés, Patxes bilbao, El Kubo De Bilbao - Rubik Bilbao, Living, Suart Jewelry – Joyería de autor Ane Navarro, Supermercado Santiestéban
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Jeff Koons Puppy Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era and the attendant crisis of representation. With his stated artistic intention to “communicate with the masses,” Koons draws from the visual language of advertising, marketing, and the entertainment industry. Testing the limits between popular and elite culture, his sculptural menagerie includes Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs suspended in glass aquariums, photographs of himself coupled with his then-wife Ilona Staller, also known as La Cicciolina (former adult-film star and member of Italian parliament), and porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. In extending the lineage of Dada and Marcel Duchamp, and integrating references to Minimalism and Pop, Koons stages art as a commodity that cannot be placed within the hierarchy of conventional aesthetics. Koons’s series Easyfun-Ethereal foregrounds happy-face deli sandwiches, spiraling roller-coaster rides, and windswept hair all set against sublime landscapes. The artist combines familiar yet unrelated images to create collagelike paintings rendered with photorealist perfection. These works recall the advertising iconography and billboard-style painting technique present in James Rosenquist‘s canvases. Koons’s new brand of Pop painting cleverly engages other art-historical references, in particular Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Sandwiches, for example, is a disjunctive, free-floating fantasy. The collage of animated deli-meats, the turkey made of ice cream, and the cartoon eye and moustache recall the free-associative visual games of Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and René Magritte, while the background streams and splashes of milk echo the abstractions of Jackson Pollock. Koons’s fusion of Pop representations with Surrealist and abstract overtones creates a hybrid of fun and fantasy, yielding a body of work that depicts gravity-defying forms of dreamlike pleasure.

In Puppy, Koons engages both past and present, employing sophisticated computer modeling while referencing the 18th-century formal garden. A behemoth West Highland terrier carpeted in bedding plants, Puppy combines the most saccharine of iconography—flowers and puppies—in a monument to the sentimental. Its size—seemingly out-of-control (it is both literally and figuratively still growing) but carefully constructed and tightly contained—can be read as an analogue of contemporary culture. Dignified and stalwart, this work fills us with awe, and even joy, while standing guard at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In keeping with themes in his past work, Koons has, by combining elite references (topiary and dog breeding) with those of the masses (Chia Pets and Hallmark greeting cards), designed this public sculpture to relentlessly entice, to create optimism, and to instill, in his own words, “confidence...

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„Puppy“ ist das Werk des amerikanischen Künstlers Jeff Koons, der für seine monumentalen, oft popkulturell inspirierten Skulpturen bekannt ist. Die Figur wurde 1992 entworfen und erstmals im Rahmen einer Ausstellung im Schlosspark von Arolsen in Deutschland präsentiert. Später wurde sie nach Bilbao gebracht und 1997 permanent vor dem Guggenheim-Museum installiert – passend zur Eröffnung des Museums.

Die Figur zeigt einen sitzenden Hund, der komplett mit lebenden Blumen bedeckt ist. Mit einer Höhe von über zwölf Metern und einer blühenden Oberfläche aus mehr als 38.000 Pflanzen ist „Puppy“ sowohl ein Kunstwerk als auch ein lebendes, sich ständig veränderndes Objekt.

Jeff Koons wollte mit „Puppy“ eine moderne Version eines barocken Gartens schaffen, ein Werk, das gleichzeitig die Vergangenheit und die Gegenwart widerspiegelt. Der Hund steht als Symbol für Loyalität und Freundschaft, während die Blumen Freude und Lebendigkeit verkörpern.

Interessant ist, dass Koons in seinem Werk oft einfache, unschuldige Motive verwendet, die dennoch eine tiefere, manchmal ironische Botschaft enthalten. Bei „Puppy“ ist es die Verbindung von Monumentalität und Verspieltheit, die beeindruckt – und die Frage aufwirft, wie etwas so Großes gleichzeitig so vertraut wirken kann.

Ein Detail, das viele Besucher nicht wissen: „Puppy“ ist ein unglaublich komplexes Kunstwerk, das regelmäßige Pflege erfordert. Die Blumen, die den Hund bedecken, werden saisonal ausgetauscht, sodass das Werk zu verschiedenen Jahreszeiten ein anderes Aussehen hat. Die Pflege erfordert ein Team von Gärtnern, die die Blumen täglich bewässern, schneiden und überwachen, um sicherzustellen, dass „Puppy“ immer in voller Pracht steht.

Außerdem war die Installation von „Puppy“ in Bilbao nicht ohne Kontroversen. Einige Kritiker argumentierten, dass die Figur zu „kitschig“ sei und nicht in den Kontext eines modernen Kunstmuseums passe. Doch die Menschen in Bilbao und die Besucher des Museums schlossen „Puppy“ schnell ins Herz, und heute ist er eines der beliebtesten Wahrzeichen der Stadt.

Ein weniger bekanntes Ereignis ist der versuchte Anschlag auf „Puppy“ im Jahr 1997. Eine kleine Gruppe von ETA-Terroristen plante, Sprengstoff in die Figur einzuschleusen, wurde jedoch rechtzeitig gestoppt. Seitdem wurden die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen rund um das Kunstwerk verstärkt.

Für mich ist „Puppy“ mehr als nur eine Skulptur – es ist ein lebendiges Symbol der Offenheit und des Wandels. Die Kombination aus der gewaltigen Größe und der Zartheit der Blumen erinnert daran, wie Kunst das Leben bereichern kann, indem sie Gegensätze miteinander vereint.

Besonders magisch finde ich es, „Puppy“ in verschiedenen Jahreszeiten zu sehen. Im Frühling ist er ein buntes Spektakel aus frischen Blüten, während er im Herbst wärmere, erdige Töne trägt. Diese ständige Veränderung macht ihn zu einem Kunstwerk, das nie ganz gleich bleibt und jedes Mal aufs Neue fasziniert.

„Puppy“ ist ein einzigartiges Kunstwerk, das die Herzen der Menschen erreicht. Er verkörpert den spielerischen Geist, den Bilbao mit seinem modernen Ansatz zur Kunst repräsentiert, und zeigt, wie Kreativität Grenzen sprengen kann. Für mich ist ein Besuch in Bilbao ohne einen Moment vor „Puppy“ nicht komplett – ein Ort, an dem man staunen, lächeln und über die Kraft der Kunst nachdenken kann.

Wenn ein Hund nicht auf Sie zulaufen mag, nachdem er Ihnen ins Gesicht geblickt hat, sollten Sie nach Hause gehen und Ihr...

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26w

A lovable icon of Bilbao!

Puppy is absolutely delightful! This giant flower-covered dog sculpture in front of the Guggenheim Museum is bursting with color and charm. The flowers change with the seasons, making each visit feel a little different.

It's impossible not to smile when you see it — cheerful, welcoming, and full of life. Puppy isn’t just a sculpture, it’s a symbol of the city’s creative spirit. Whether you're a local or a tourist, this is a must-see (and must-photo!) spot in Bilbao.

No matter how many times I pass by, I always stop to...

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Jeff Koons Puppy Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era and the attendant crisis of representation. With his stated artistic intention to “communicate with the masses,” Koons draws from the visual language of advertising, marketing, and the entertainment industry. Testing the limits between popular and elite culture, his sculptural menagerie includes Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs suspended in glass aquariums, photographs of himself coupled with his then-wife Ilona Staller, also known as La Cicciolina (former adult-film star and member of Italian parliament), and porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. In extending the lineage of Dada and Marcel Duchamp, and integrating references to Minimalism and Pop, Koons stages art as a commodity that cannot be placed within the hierarchy of conventional aesthetics. Koons’s series Easyfun-Ethereal foregrounds happy-face deli sandwiches, spiraling roller-coaster rides, and windswept hair all set against sublime landscapes. The artist combines familiar yet unrelated images to create collagelike paintings rendered with photorealist perfection. These works recall the advertising iconography and billboard-style painting technique present in James Rosenquist‘s canvases. Koons’s new brand of Pop painting cleverly engages other art-historical references, in particular Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Sandwiches, for example, is a disjunctive, free-floating fantasy. The collage of animated deli-meats, the turkey made of ice cream, and the cartoon eye and moustache recall the free-associative visual games of Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and René Magritte, while the background streams and splashes of milk echo the abstractions of Jackson Pollock. Koons’s fusion of Pop representations with Surrealist and abstract overtones creates a hybrid of fun and fantasy, yielding a body of work that depicts gravity-defying forms of dreamlike pleasure. In Puppy, Koons engages both past and present, employing sophisticated computer modeling while referencing the 18th-century formal garden. A behemoth West Highland terrier carpeted in bedding plants, Puppy combines the most saccharine of iconography—flowers and puppies—in a monument to the sentimental. Its size—seemingly out-of-control (it is both literally and figuratively still growing) but carefully constructed and tightly contained—can be read as an analogue of contemporary culture. Dignified and stalwart, this work fills us with awe, and even joy, while standing guard at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In keeping with themes in his past work, Koons has, by combining elite references (topiary and dog breeding) with those of the masses (Chia Pets and Hallmark greeting cards), designed this public sculpture to relentlessly entice, to create optimism, and to instill, in his own words, “confidence and security.
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Puppy ​ es una icónica escultura floral moderna realizada por el artista estadounidense Jeff Koons​ en 1992 que está ubicada frente al Museo Guggenheim de la ciudad de Bilbao. Instalada en su emplazamiento actual en octubre de 1997,​ representa un cachorro escocés de la raza West Highland White Terrier. Se compone de una estructura de acero recubierta con aproximadamente 38000 plantas naturales, que son reemplazadas dos veces al año a medida que dejan de florecer,​ así como de un sistema interno de irrigación. Con unas dimensiones de 12,4 x 12,4 x 8,2 metros,​ pesa un total de 16 toneladas. ​El 27 de septiembre de 2021, comenzaron las obras para la remodelación del sistema de riego que da vida a las flores que cubren la escultura, tras 24 años en servicio. Debido a la falta de fondos del Museo por la caída en el número de visitas que la crisis del coronavirus trajo, el Guggenheim organizó un sistema de micromecenazgo que sufragara las obras. El montante necesario para acometerla ascendió a cien mil euros. Tras varios meses recaudando fondos a través de la web, finalmente comenzó la remodelación. En noviembre del mismo año finalizaron los trabajos de remodelación del esqueleto de acero interno de la escultura. Ese otoño, justo antes del cambio de flor, se llevó a cabo la primera gran obra de conservación preventiva de la escultura floral, incluyéndose la reposición y saneamiento de la estructura y de las diferentes capas internas que sujetan el sustrato que a su vez alimenta a las flores. A todo ello se añadió un nuevo sistema de autorriego regulado por sensores de humedad en diferentes zonas.
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Jeff Koons Puppy Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era and the attendant crisis of representation. With his stated artistic intention to “communicate with the masses,” Koons draws from the visual language of advertising, marketing, and the entertainment industry. Testing the limits between popular and elite culture, his sculptural menagerie includes Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs suspended in glass aquariums, photographs of himself coupled with his then-wife Ilona Staller, also known as La Cicciolina (former adult-film star and member of Italian parliament), and porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. In extending the lineage of Dada and Marcel Duchamp, and integrating references to Minimalism and Pop, Koons stages art as a commodity that cannot be placed within the hierarchy of conventional aesthetics. Koons’s series Easyfun-Ethereal foregrounds happy-face deli sandwiches, spiraling roller-coaster rides, and windswept hair all set against sublime landscapes. The artist combines familiar yet unrelated images to create collagelike paintings rendered with photorealist perfection. These works recall the advertising iconography and billboard-style painting technique present in James Rosenquist‘s canvases. Koons’s new brand of Pop painting cleverly engages other art-historical references, in particular Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Sandwiches, for example, is a disjunctive, free-floating fantasy. The collage of animated deli-meats, the turkey made of ice cream, and the cartoon eye and moustache recall the free-associative visual games of Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and René Magritte, while the background streams and splashes of milk echo the abstractions of Jackson Pollock. Koons’s fusion of Pop representations with Surrealist and abstract overtones creates a hybrid of fun and fantasy, yielding a body of work that depicts gravity-defying forms of dreamlike pleasure. In Puppy, Koons engages both past and present, employing sophisticated computer modeling while referencing the 18th-century formal garden. A behemoth West Highland terrier carpeted in bedding plants, Puppy combines the most saccharine of iconography—flowers and puppies—in a monument to the sentimental. Its size—seemingly out-of-control (it is both literally and figuratively still growing) but carefully constructed and tightly contained—can be read as an analogue of contemporary culture. Dignified and stalwart, this work fills us with awe, and even joy, while standing guard at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In keeping with themes in his past work, Koons has, by combining elite references (topiary and dog breeding) with those of the masses (Chia Pets and Hallmark greeting cards), designed this public sculpture to relentlessly entice, to create optimism, and to instill, in his own words, “confidence and security.
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Puppy ​ es una icónica escultura floral moderna realizada por el artista estadounidense Jeff Koons​ en 1992 que está ubicada frente al Museo Guggenheim de la ciudad de Bilbao. Instalada en su emplazamiento actual en octubre de 1997,​ representa un cachorro escocés de la raza West Highland White Terrier. Se compone de una estructura de acero recubierta con aproximadamente 38000 plantas naturales, que son reemplazadas dos veces al año a medida que dejan de florecer,​ así como de un sistema interno de irrigación. Con unas dimensiones de 12,4 x 12,4 x 8,2 metros,​ pesa un total de 16 toneladas. ​El 27 de septiembre de 2021, comenzaron las obras para la remodelación del sistema de riego que da vida a las flores que cubren la escultura, tras 24 años en servicio. Debido a la falta de fondos del Museo por la caída en el número de visitas que la crisis del coronavirus trajo, el Guggenheim organizó un sistema de micromecenazgo que sufragara las obras. El montante necesario para acometerla ascendió a cien mil euros. Tras varios meses recaudando fondos a través de la web, finalmente comenzó la remodelación. En noviembre del mismo año finalizaron los trabajos de remodelación del esqueleto de acero interno de la escultura. Ese otoño, justo antes del cambio de flor, se llevó a cabo la primera gran obra de conservación preventiva de la escultura floral, incluyéndose la reposición y saneamiento de la estructura y de las diferentes capas internas que sujetan el sustrato que a su vez alimenta a las flores. A todo ello se añadió un nuevo sistema de autorriego regulado por sensores de humedad en diferentes zonas.
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