Claes Oldenburg Floor Burger 1962

Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 a sculpture that foretold the notion of meatspace decades before the term was coined to distinguish between the physical and virtual worlds.

Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962.

27 1967 for 2 000. Floor burger claes oldenburg 1962. For example look at the actual photograph of the spoon and cherry installation was initially titled giant hamburger. 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.

16 october 2017 13 april 2018 giada frigerio. Two cheeseburgers with everything dual hamburgers was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. 1 32 m high. 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.

Photo by vige and floor burger was no exception. He is considered one of the major american pop art artist his giant sculptures are knew and based. He was born on 1929 in sweden and he naturalized as american citizen. 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.

Floor burger giant hamburger was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. Indeed when the swedish born oldenburg first publicly displayed floor burger or as he originally called it giant burger at an upper west side gallery in september 1962 it was joined by. Floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 4 ft. The art gallery of ontario purchased the floor burger from the sidney janis gallery in new york on jan.

They then tried to donate the bottle to the gallery. 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.