Floor Burger Claes

1 32 m high.

Floor burger claes. Lipstick ascending on caterpillar tracks claes oldenburg 1969. 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. Soft drainpipe blue cool version claes oldenburg 1967. 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.

Art gallery of ontario toronto canada. 58 3 8 x 9 6 1 4 x 58 3 8 148 2 x 290 2 x 148 2 cm. Floor cone floor burger and floor cake shown here were among the monumental structures based on comfort food. 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.

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

Spoonbridge and cherry collaboration with van bruggen claes oldenburg. Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 title. Floor burger giant hamburger claes oldenburg 1962. Oldenburg claes b 1929 nationality.

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. Acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes. Floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 4 ft. Synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes.

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.