Claes Oldenburgs Floor Burger

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.

Claes oldenburgs floor burger.

1 32 m high. Floor cone floor burger and floor cake shown here were among the monumental structures based on comfort food. Globe mail photo and headline from feb. Summary of claes oldenburg.

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. Jennifer roberts for the globe and mail. Floor burger giant hamburger was created in 1962 by claes oldenburg in pop art style. Art gallery of ontario toronto canada.

Floor burger acquired in a ketchup swirl of controversy. The work created in 1962 by pop art pioneer claes oldenburg was initially titled giant hamburger. Claes oldenburg s floor cake 1962 entered into the painting and sculpture department at moma in 1975. 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.

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. 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. Acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes. Floor burger 1962 canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes painted with latex and liquitex 4 ft.

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. The ago purchased the floor burger from the sidney janis gallery in new york on jan. 27 1967 for 2 000. 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.

Oldenburg claes b 1929 nationality. 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. Floor burger 1962 acrylic on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes creator.