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...CLAES OLDENBURG-Janis, 15 East 57th. Known for "happenings" and Hamburgers, Oldenburg performs a new kind of artistic hocuspocus. With a fine feeling for materials, he instills inanimate objects with Geist, then wrenches from them a whole range of emotions. His Soft Telephone, its mouthpiece dangling, its coin box regurgitating, is a sad sack in shiny black vinyl. A Soft Typewriter, its pearly Plexiglas keys hopelessly entangled, collapses into its shell with the mortification of a machine that suddenly finds itself ready for IBM's junk heap. Other objects in 22 materials along with some drawings. Through...
...latest three-dimensional work is unfortunately a gross exaggeration. The flat canvases with their toothy grins and giant tire treads had more shock; his newest "new realism" suffers from artificiality. Through Feb. 8. Down the street at Janis, 15 East 57th, Rosenquist, Jim Dine, George Segal and Claes Oldenburg create "Four Environments." Each artist has a room of his own: Oldenburg, for example, a bedroom, Segal a movie theater. Through...
...there is any mystery in the work of Claes Oldenburg, 34, the son of a former Swedish consul general, it is in his extraordinary explanations for doing what he does. He calls his giant Floorburger a "metaphor of the human body" because its skin feels a bit like flesh and it is an object that only a human being would create. "I create forms from a living situation: a hamburger is something a living form would create...
Blue Wrench. Happenings are old stuff in the artiest alcoves of Manhattan, but of course that means nothing in Washington square. This one was prepared by Artist Claes Oldenburg, who makes those huge sailcloth hamburgers. Washington society prepared by getting itself puffed, powdered and sloshed. Little dinners were eaten intimately in Georgetown. The jolly crowd then collected at the gallery to see what was going to happen. Nearly everyone sat on campstools-White House Art Adviser Bill Walton, FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby, Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Those...
...cast of 19 performed-21 were listed but two didn't show up. "You just never know about this sort of thing in a happening," shrugged Oldenburg. They staged 48 separate events, each a minute long. Everything was sort of idiosymbolic. A huge white tube of canvas came wriggling into view, propelled by somebody underneath. Chuckle, chuckle-it's the Potomac. The blue ice cream ended up in paper plates on a picnic table, making the point that Washington is a hell of a party town. Two men sprayed the place with Flit guns loaded with a foul...