Claes Oldenburg
Sculpture In The Form Of A Bicycle Saddle
1976

Name: Sculpture In The Form Of A Bicycle Saddle
Brand: Claes Oldenburg
Price: 25000 USD
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About the Item

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Claes Oldenburg Sculpture In The Form Of A Bicycle Saddle 1976 Glazed brown ceramic with mahogany base and sand 14 x 8 1/2 x d: 8 1/2 in. Edition of 36 Signed and numbered in ink on bottom Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art Condition: This work is in pristine condition. It comes in the original packaging fitted specifically for the sculpture. ABOUT THIS WORK: This work is comprise of a ceramic bicycle saddle which sits balancing on top of sand that is housed in a ceramic and wood base. Sculpture In The Form Of A Bicycle Saddle is a great example of Oldenburg's personal way of making art. The purpose of Oldenburg's art is to uncover the mystery and power of commonplace objects by morphing their scale, shape, and texture, embracing what he calls the poetry of everywhere. A saddle is just a saddle, but when carved in to a mountain, held in place by a sand box, it becomes something else when we look at it in the form of a work of art. The way in which the sculpture is carved, the glossy ceramic, the base made of sand and wood, the strange position of the saddle itself: every element in this sculpture seems to decontextualize the object and help it to become estranged, so that we are finally able to look at it in a different perspective - as a work of art. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art. In the 1960's he became associated with the Pop Art movement. This brash, often humorous, approach to art was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that, by its nature, art dealt with "profound" expressions or ideas. But Oldenburg's spirited art found first a niche then a great popularity that endures to this day. Oldenburg was honored with a solo exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1969, and with a retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1995. In 2002 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a retrospective of the drawings of Oldenburg and Van Bruggen; the same year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York exhibited a selection of their sculptures on the roof of the museum.

Creator:

Claes Oldenburg (1929, American, Swedish)

Creation Year:

1976

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 16 in (40.64 cm)

Medium:

Ceramic

Movement & Style:

Pop Art

Period:

1970-1979