Claes Oldenburgs Floor Burger

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Claes oldenburgs floor burger.

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. 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. Art gallery of ontario toronto canada. Floor burger 1962 acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes creator.

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

Claes oldenburg s floor cake 1962 entered into the painting and sculpture department at moma in 1975. Jennifer roberts for the globe and mail. Floor burger acquired in a ketchup swirl of controversy. Measuring five by nine feet this popular piece of painted cake has been heavily exhibited in the museum and across the united states and has made three transatlantic voyages.

Floor cone floor burger and floor cake shown here were among the monumental structures based on comfort food. Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 title. Summary of claes oldenburg. Floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 4 ft.

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. Acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes. The work created in 1962 by pop art pioneer claes oldenburg was initially titled giant hamburger. The ago purchased the floor burger from the sidney janis gallery in new york on jan.

27 1967 for 2 000. 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. 1 32 m high.