Balloon Sculpture - Eye Popping Balloon Art and Sculptures

Balloon Sculpture - Eye Popping Balloon Art and Sculptures 

We are all familiar with balloon sculptures. As children, we all watched in fascination as clowns who mastered the art of balloon sculpture deftly transformed ordinary balloons into swords and animals. These rounded shapes aren't just present at birthday parties, they're also very much present in contemporary art. Seemingly naive, artists use this art form to express unexpected metaphors.

The world-famous American artist Jeff Koons is undoubtedly accountable for this trend. Balloon Dog, his most famous and expensive creation (estimated at 58 million dollars), has contributed to making these rounded shapes omnipresent in contemporary art. It took Koons and his team 4 years to make 5 versions of the 3-meter high sculpture. The shiny stainless steel sculpture exists in a range of colours: magenta, orange, blue, yellow, and red. For Koons, art is a limitless playground in which dogs, pop art characters and tulips unite.

Taking inspiration from the great masters of the 20th century, Balloon Dog could be defined as a hybrid creation of Marcel Duchamp's ready-made art, Claes Oldenburg's colossal artworks, and of course Andy Warhol's colourful Pop Art.

Jeff Koon's Balloon Dog has established itself as one of the most iconic works of contemporary art. It can be seen as an attempt of reconciling, or perhaps confronting, mass entertainment and art. The work has cemented Koon's fame. The American artist, both loved and hated by the art world and the public, has had a number of successful exhibitions all over the world, including in Versailles' gardens and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Besides the kitsch master, the balloon has proved to be a significant source of inspiration for many contemporary artists. In Yayoi Kusama's psychedelic universe, they are hundreds floating, sometimes transparent, sometimes dotted and fluorescent.

Among Artsper's emerging artists, many are experimenting with balloon sculpture, or are using it as a symbolic instrument. For Béatrice Bissara and Jean-Louis Toutain, the hanging balloons seem to enchant its owner whereas Valérie Marty creates bird-like shapes. Mauro Corda works very differently. In his hands, balloons become fascinating and uncanny human heads.

Rediscover the balloon sculpture of your childhood as you've never seen it before with this unique selection of artworks.