Word: oldenburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLAES OLDENBURG is not just a sculptor, he is a magician. Ordinary objects, under his hands, metamorphose into vital and eloquent forms; he can create an Ovidian phantasmagoria from a cigarette butt, or animate a movie camera. His art works imaginative miracles with the stuff of everyday existence. Typewriter erasers are infused with life, clothespins garbed in symbolism. He's the type of person who could change your water into wine...
...Oldenburg's drawings and sculpture realize the magic of his thought. The current exhibition, held jointly at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston, and Hayden Gallery at MIT, focuses on six themes the Swedish-born sculptor has developed over the last ten years: "Geometric Mouse", "Three-way Plug", "Clothespin", "Fagends", "Typewriter Eraser", and "Standing Mitt with Ball". In each case, Oldenburg considers a commonplace object, analyzes it in terms of texture, volume, form, etc., then manipulates the essence he has extracted. Using a process of free association, he fuses images, correlating aspects of the original object to other things...
...simple utilitarian objects Oldenburg uses as a foundation for his creation inspire him with affection, even reverence. He says about the clothespin...
...Claes Oldenburg. Sculpture and drawings at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Hayden Gallery, MIT, thrugh February 25. The most incredible clothespins ever...
Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston: Claes Oldenburg notebook pages, "giant soft's sculptures, steel pieces...a complement to the Oldenburg show...