Floor Burger Claes

Spoonbridge and cherry collaboration with van bruggen claes oldenburg.

Floor burger claes.

Soft drainpipe blue cool version claes oldenburg 1967. With his saggy hamburgers colossal clothespins and giant three way plugs claes oldenburg has been the reigning king of pop sculpture since the early 1960s back when new york was still truly gritty. Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 title. Floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 4 ft.

Floor burger giant hamburger claes oldenburg 1962. Summary of claes oldenburg. 2 13 m diameter the art gallery of ontario is home to claes oldenburg s work floor burger created in 1962 and purchased by the ago for their permanent collection in 1967. Synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes.

Art gallery of ontario toronto canada. Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 2 13 m diameter collection art gallery of ontario toronto. 1 32 m high. Floor cone floor burger and floor cake shown here were among the monumental structures based on comfort food.

It seemed perfectly natural to me that if you like to touch things you like to touch soft things as well as hard things if you re going to make sculpture out of real things around you then. In the run up to the loan the ago decided to publicly exhibit the conservation treatment i was doing on the burger we thought of it as a chance for visitors to see the kind of work. Oldenburg created the large scale soft sculptures floor burger floor cone and floor cake for the 1962 installation of the store at the green gallery in midtown manhattan. Lipstick ascending on caterpillar tracks claes oldenburg 1969.

For the new york run of the touring claes oldenburg exhibition that opens at the museum of modern art in april the art gallery of ontario agreed to lend its iconic oldenburg soft sculpture floor burger 1962. Floor burger giant hamburger was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. Oldenburg claes b 1929 nationality. Acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes.

Installation technicians ruth jones and ben oakley install claes oldenburg s floor burger at the art gallery of ontario on january 12 2016.