Claes Oldenburgs Floor Burger

The work created in 1962 by pop art pioneer claes oldenburg was initially titled giant hamburger.

Claes oldenburgs floor burger.

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. 1 32 m high. Installation technicians ruth jones and ben oakley install claes oldenburg s floor burger at the art gallery of ontario on january 12 2016. Globe mail photo and headline from feb.

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. Jennifer roberts for the globe and mail. 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.

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. Art gallery of ontario toronto canada. Perhaps already worried about potential controversy that would ignite. Summary of claes oldenburg.

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. Acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes. 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.

Oldenburg claes b 1929 nationality. 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. Floor burger 1962 acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes creator. Claes oldenburg floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 2 13 m diameter collection art gallery of ontario toronto.

Floor cone floor burger and floor cake shown here were among the monumental structures based on comfort food. Floor burger giant hamburger was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. The ago purchased the floor burger from the sidney janis gallery in new york on jan.