Things Around the House: Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen
5:00 a.m.
Paula Cooper's Gallery, in New York, is presenting the exhibition "Things Around the House", with works by Claes Oldenburg (Stockholm, 1929) and Coosje van Bruggen (Groningen, 1942-Los Angeles, 2009). The hundred works on display were found in the house and studio Oldenburg had since 1971 and shared with Van Brugge, till her death in 2009.
Claes is known for doing daily-life objects in a distorted scale. In this exhibition, visitors get a chance to enter the intimate life of the artist and his wife, with the artworks they kept for themselves.
Up, left:
Broken Button, by Claes Oldenburg (1981)
dyed
and cast-paper, screenprinted paper mounted / Measures: 41.3 x 36.2 x 16.5 cm
On the right:
Scissors with Thread Spool, by Claes Oldenburg (1989)
Wood,
cardboard, metal; coated with resin and painted with latex emulsion and
metallic spray enamel / Measures: 114.3 x 41.9 x 30.5 cm
A la derecha:
Light Switches-hard version, by Claes Oldenburg (1964-69) - Replica
Materiales: painted wood / Measures: 121.3 x 121.3 x 29.8
Study for Beached Lutes, by Claes Oldenburg (2006) - Version Four
Wood,
metal, polyurethane, foam and cod coated with resin and painted with latex / Measures: 41.9 x 48.3 x 38.1 cm
Tomatos Farcies, by Claes Oldenburg (2015)
According to the artist “poetry is everywhere” and that's' why he re-imagines ordinary objects in strange scales. His vision is also poses a criticism to the American society of consumerism. The size of his works drives desire to exaggerated extremes, turning the object into something monstrous.
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