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Claes OldenburgStudy of a Monument1975
1975
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Claes Oldenberg (1929-2022) is a Swedish-born American artist, renowned for his contribution to Pop art by way of his iconic soft sculptures and public installations.
In 1962, Oldenburg debuted his revolutionary soft sculptures at the Green Gallery in New York. Three giant, squishy forms in the shape of an ice cream cone, a hamburger, and a slice of cake, swelled across the gallery floor, forever changing the way we define sculpture. It has been noted that Oldenburg's early work was largely inspired by Yayoi Kusama's hand-sewn phallic-shaped soft sculptures that enveloped the surfaces of ironing boards, sofas, and boats.
Ranging from the infamous voluminous hamburgers (famously on display at the AGO) to ballistic badminton shuttlecocks, Oldenberg's colossal sculptures replicate commonplace objects on a grand scale, often disrupting the environment they inhabit with curious and playful subtexts. The confrontational nature of Oldenberg's sculptures places an emphasis on the viewer, asking us to reconsider our relationship to these recognizable, but obscure, objects.
During the mid-1970s, Oldenburg created a handful of erotic etchings featuring humorous juxtapositions and zany power dynamics. In this work, Oldenburg details a group of women, their languorous figures are strewn about as they surround the oversized phallus behind them.
This intricate etching is based on the 1965 drawing "Clinical Study Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic / Comic Style", now in the permanent collection at MoMA.
Today, Oldenburg's work is enjoyed across the globe with public sculptures spanning over 11 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia. Along with his wife and frequent collaborator, Coosje van Bruggen, Oldenburg was the recipient of numerous accolades including Distinction in Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York (2002); and Medal Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2004).
"Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style"
USA, 1975
Etching printed in mauve on a Wookey Hole handmade paper
Signed in pencil, dated, and numbered
From an edition of 60
25.5"H 32.75" (work)
Framed
Very good condition.
Publisher: Petersburg Press, London and New York
Literature: Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg, 1958-1996. Hudson Hills Press in association with Madison Art Center Wisconsin, New York, 1997. Illustration no. 120
- Creator:Claes Oldenburg (1929, American, Swedish)
- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Width: 37.75 in (95.89 cm)
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- Condition:Very good condition.
- Gallery Location:Toronto, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 08-221stDibs: LU215210744532
Claes Oldenburg
One of the original Pop artists, Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm. The son of a Swedish diplomat, he spent his early years in Stockholm and Oslo until the family moved to Chicago in 1937.
Oldenburg attended Yale University, then returned to Chicago, where he worked for a newspaper and also attended drawing classes at the Art Institute. He moved to New York in 1956.
Oldenburg’s early art in New York were works of urban realism in cardboard and paper that were influenced by the work of Dubuffet and the New Realists, and were seen as a brutal response to society. In 1961 Oldenburg rented a storefront on the Lower East Side and sold brightly painted plaster objects as well as three-dimensional and wall reliefs based on hamburgers, pastries, men's and women's clothing, and other commodities. The signature soft sculptures followed, objects of commonplace household objects made of vinyl or canvas stuffed with kapok. These pieces transformed the medium — the soft sculptures are intended to be sensual experiences and commentary on our material world of objects and our relationship to them.
In 1965, still working in vinyl, plaster and cardboard, Oldenburg began making large works termed “Colossal Monuments,” which are large public sculptures with public and private meanings. In the 1970s, Oldenburg was fabricating large-scale works in durable materials such as steel, and working with Coosje van Bruggen, he had received many such public commissions in the United States and Europe.
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