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Copyright Claes Oldenburg & Cooseje van Bruggen | | | Oldenburg, Claes (1929 - ) USA
Soft Light Switches 'Ghost' Version, 1963
Liquitex and graphite on canvas filled with kapok, mounted on canvas over wood; 132.1 x 132.1 x 24.1 cm Pop Art
UID 102-413
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Biography
Sculptor, draughtsman, commercial designer, performance artist and writer who is Swedish by birth but has adopted American nationality. Between 1946 and 1950 he studied at Yale University in New Haven, moving to New York in 1956, where he painted compositions strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Two years later, he was part of a group that challenged this current through the use of figurative images and waste material. In 1959, he held his first one-man show at the Judson Gallery in New York in which he presented figurative drawings and papier maché sculptures. His involvement with materialist culture as a working theme, gave him a leading position in Pop Art. In 1964 and 1968, he took part in the Venice Biennale. In 1965, he became especially interested in designs and projects for imaginary outdoor monuments, the first to be realised in three-dimension being Lipstick Ascending, on Caterpillar Tracks which was installed opposite the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University in 1969. Between 1968 and 1982, he took part in documenta 4, 6 and 7, in Kassel. The desire to produce democratic art, accessible to all, led Oldenburg to experiment with the techniques of commercial printing where he proved to be a considerable innovator. In the 70s, he concentrated almost exclusively on creations for public spaces, as a means of escaping from what he considered the commercial manipulation of his work by the art market.
Exhibitions
American Pop Icons Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, LLC, USA 22-05-2003 ~ 11-02-2003
Claes Oldenburg Sidney Janis Gallery, USA 01-01-1963 ~ 31-12-1963
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art Whitney Museum of American Art, USA 01-01-1964 ~ 30-12-1964
Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher (Bern) Kunsthalle (Bern), Switzerland 01-01-1969 ~ 31-12-1969
Claes Oldenburg (Amsterdam) Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), The Netherlands 01-01-1969 ~ 31-12-1970
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-10-2003 ~ 22-02-2004
Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher (Berlin) Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Germany 01-01-1969 ~ 01-01-1969
Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher (Düsseldorf) Kunsthalle (Düsseldorf), Germany 01-01-1969 ~ 31-12-1968
Claes Oldenburg (New York) The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NY), USA 01-01-1969 ~ 31-12-1970
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
A Look at The Berardo Collection Museu de José Malhoa, Portugal 23-07-2001 ~ 26-10-2001
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
A Look at The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-06-2000 ~ 30-09-2000
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Malevich and the Black Square Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany 22-03-2007 ~ 10-06-2007
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
POP ART 1956 -1968 Scuderie del Quirinale, Italy 26-10-2007 ~ 27-01-2008
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
American Pop Icons, 2003 Published by Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Claes Oldenburg, Exhibition Catalogue, 1969-1970
Claes Oldenburg: Skulpturer öch teckningar, 1966 Published by Moderna Museet
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Karl Ströher: Sammler und Sammlung, 1982
Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176384
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher, 1969
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art, Part I, New York, Tuesday, November 1 1994, lot. 53 , 1994 Published by Sotheby´s
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
The disrespectful hand-maiden, 1965 Published by Art
A Look at The Berardo Collection, 2000 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742839
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