Balloon Flower (Red)

Jeff Koons, the internationally celebrated artist, created Balloon Flower Red, the sculpture that sits in the center of the fountain in the new park at 7 WTC. Born in 1955, Mr. Koons is one of the world’s most widely recognized artists. His work has been the subject of many exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including major retrospectives organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1992 and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and solo exhibitions at the Sonnabend Gallery, New York 1999, and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain 1997.