In the early 1960s, Claes Oldenburg made replicas of food intended for theatrical performances and for sale in ‘The Store’: a shop, studio and installation in one. He delivered art to the man in the street as a product: art that, ‘that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum, […] that embroils itself with the everyday crap’. Later he worked on a much larger scale and made soft versions of hard objects, such as this washbasin.
Specifications
| Title | Soft washstand |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Vinyl, capok, painted wood and painted metal |
| Object type |
Sculpture
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 139,5 cm Width 87 cm Depth 51 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Claes Oldenburg
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| Accession number | BEK 1748 (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased with the support of Mondriaan Fund, Rembrandt Association (thanks to its Dura Kunstfonds), Cultuurfonds, municipality of Rotterdam, and VSBfonds, 2006 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 2006 |
| Creation date | in 1965 |
| External exhibitions |
Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties (2012) (Re)staging When Attitudes Become Form (2013) |
| Research |
Show research Digitising Contemporary Art |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Painting
> Painted
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Painting
> Painted
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | The United States of America > North America > America |
| Geographical origin | Sweden > Scandanavia > Northern Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Claes Oldenburg
Stockholm 1929 - New York 2022
Claes Oldenburg is of Swedish origin and studied art and literature at Yale University and subsequently, from 1950 to 1954, at the School of the Art Institute...
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