Oldenburg,+Claes

toc Read here about an artist that creates work addressing issues of scale.

=Overview= Claes Oldenburg collaborated with writer Coosje van Bruggen over decades to produce a series of large-scale outdoor projects, which have been realized in many urban settings in the United States and Europe. These public sculptures relate to their sites both formally and conceptually.

Beginning in 1969, a number of Oldenburg's "feasible" proposals for monuments were carried out. His first realized monument was Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, an outdoor sculpture commissioned by architecture students at Yale University, installed there in 1969, and reconstructed in 1974.

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=Quotes about scale= "I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions."

"A common object (applied to public sculpture) is a perfect meeting place--I have always found--of subjectivity and objectivity, inside and outside. I turn to objects out of my isolation and self-reflection, but in objects I discover society, and in objects society discovers itself as well. Common objects are a device for the reflection of their surroundings." -- 1980

=Links and References=

Wikipedia page on Oldenburg, []. Guggenheim museum online collection, []

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