Claes Oldenburg
30 Oct 2012 - 17 Feb 2013
© Claes Oldenburg
Floor Cake, 1962
Canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, painted with synthetic
1.48 x 2.9 x 1.48 m
Courtesy MoMa, New York; gift of Philip Johnson, 1975
Floor Cake, 1962
Canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, painted with synthetic
1.48 x 2.9 x 1.48 m
Courtesy MoMa, New York; gift of Philip Johnson, 1975
CLAES OLDENBURG
The Sixties
30 Octobre 2012 — 17 February 2013
With his humorous and profound depictions of everyday objects, Claes Oldenburg is one of the most important and popular artists since the late 1950s. Not only has he been a major figure in performance art, installation art and pop art, but he has also, through his partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, had a profound influence on public art with their monumental large-scale projects. One central point of reference in Oldenburg’s oeuvre is the industrially produced object—the object as commodity, which in continuous metamorphoses of media and form becomes a conveyer of culture and a symbol of the imagination, desires, and obsessions of the capitalist world.
The exhibition is the largest show realized of Oldenburg’s path-breaking and emblematic early work from the 1960s. Numerous icons of contemporary art will be seen in the exhibition, beginning with the installation The Street (1960) and its graffiti-inspired depictions of modern life in the big city, continuing to the famous consumer articles of The Store (1961-62), to the spectacular everyday objects of the "modern home". The exhibition is also dedicated to Oldenburg’s first designs depicting enormous monuments of consumer objects intended for public spaces and concludes with the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien’s Mouse Museum, a walk-in, miniature museum in the form of a geometric mouse, for which Oldenburg has collected 385 objects since the late 1950s.
The exhibition is co-organized by Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (MUMOK) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
The Sixties
30 Octobre 2012 — 17 February 2013
With his humorous and profound depictions of everyday objects, Claes Oldenburg is one of the most important and popular artists since the late 1950s. Not only has he been a major figure in performance art, installation art and pop art, but he has also, through his partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, had a profound influence on public art with their monumental large-scale projects. One central point of reference in Oldenburg’s oeuvre is the industrially produced object—the object as commodity, which in continuous metamorphoses of media and form becomes a conveyer of culture and a symbol of the imagination, desires, and obsessions of the capitalist world.
The exhibition is the largest show realized of Oldenburg’s path-breaking and emblematic early work from the 1960s. Numerous icons of contemporary art will be seen in the exhibition, beginning with the installation The Street (1960) and its graffiti-inspired depictions of modern life in the big city, continuing to the famous consumer articles of The Store (1961-62), to the spectacular everyday objects of the "modern home". The exhibition is also dedicated to Oldenburg’s first designs depicting enormous monuments of consumer objects intended for public spaces and concludes with the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien’s Mouse Museum, a walk-in, miniature museum in the form of a geometric mouse, for which Oldenburg has collected 385 objects since the late 1950s.
The exhibition is co-organized by Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (MUMOK) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.