Claes Oldenburg. The Sixties

Claes Oldenburg<br />Shoestring Potatoes, Spilling from a Bag, 1966 <br />Canvas filled with kapok, glue and painted with acrylic Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Gift of the T. B. Walker Foundation, 1966 <br />© Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg
Shoestring Potatoes, Spilling from a Bag, 1966
Canvas filled with kapok, glue and painted with acrylic Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Gift of the T. B. Walker Foundation, 1966
© Claes Oldenburg

Attention

The Maus Museum is only on view until 28 September!

Claes Oldenburg is one of the big names in American Pop Art. His sculptures mostly take banal everyday objects as their point of departure, and they always contain unexpected elements, be they extra large light switches or ice cream cones made of limp lined pieces of cloth, or his monumental outdoor sculptures. Present in many places throughout the world, his direct and precise works possess a playful air, lending them their typical character.

Claes Oldenburg

23.6 – 30.9.2012

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday:
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Every first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed on Monday

Admission and getting here

The exhibition at the Museum Ludwig offers the most comprehensive overview so far of the artistic development of Oldenburg from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s. The numerous pieces and work complexes, only rarely seen in this density, shed light on the history of their creation and the artistic vocabulary - beginning with the historically important Installations "The Street" and "The Store" as well as the contemporaneous parallel happenings, to the diverse soft, hard, ghost and giant versions of his object sculptures from the 1960s, to his renderings of public monuments in drawings and collages. Another focus will be the conceptualization of his approach in the 1970s, which centered around the "Mouse Museum."

<p>Exhibition view<br />Photo: Lee M., Museum Ludwig Köln<br />© Claes Oldenburg</p>

<p>Soft Dormeyer Mixer, 1965 <br />Vinyl, kapok wood, aluminum tubing, electric cord and rubber <br />79.7 x 51.1 x 30.5 cm <br />Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Purchase, with funds from the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.<br />Photo: mumok / Jerry L. Thompson <br />© Claes Oldenburg</p>

<p>Oldenburg_The_Street.jpg<br />Installation, 1960<br />Photo: Lee M., Museum Ludwig Köln<br />© Claes Oldenburg</p>

<p>Claes Oldenburg<br />Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers), 1962<br />Burlap soaked in plaster, painted with enamel<br />17.8 x 37.5 x 21.8 cm <br />The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philip Johnson Fund<br />© Claes Oldenburg</p>

<p>Claes Oldenburg<br />U.S.A. Flag, 1960 <br />Muslin soaked in plaster over wire frame, painted with enamel<br />61 x 76.2 x 8.9 cm <br />National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of John and Mary Pappajohn <br />© Claes Oldenburg</p>

<p>Claes Oldenburg<br />Washstand - Hard Model, 1965-66<br />Enamel, spray enamel, and felt pen on cardboard; wood<br />123 x 91,5 x 74,5 cm<br />Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (ehemalige Sammlung Karl Ströher, Darmstadt)<br />Photo: Rudolf Nagel, Frankfurt am Main <br />© Claes Oldenburg</p>

<p>Giant Soft Fan, 1966-67 <br />Vinyl filled with polyurethane foam, canvas, wood, metal, plastic<br />approximately 305 x 149.5 x 157.1 cm, plus cord and plug The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection <br />Photo: mumok <br />© Claes Oldenburg</p>

Start picture gallery (8 pictures)

The exhibition was conceived by Achim Hochdörfer for the MUMOK in Vienna, the Museum Ludwig Cologne is because of its great Oldenburg collection the largest lender.
Further venues will be the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Walker Art Center.

Dr. Stephan Diederich

Extended Thursday - Claes Oldenburg

Thurs, August 2, 2012, 6 - 10 pm

6, 7, 9 pm Guided tours throuh the exhibition Claes Oldenburg. The Sixties
from 7 pm hot dogs on the roof terrace of the Museum Ludwig
8 pm film screening Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years (1975, R: Michael Blackwood)

a bboxxfilme Production for the Museum Ludwig

Storyboard-competition for children and yound people

A giant ice-cream-cone sits in the roof of a building at Cologne's Neumarkt. How did it get there? Invent your own story! Just print out the sheet, complete the storyboard and send or e-mail it back adding your name, address and e-mail address to:

Angelika v. Tomaszewski
Head of Art Education
Museum Ludwig
Heinrich-Böll-Platz
50667 Köln
museumsdienst@museum-ludwig.de

The most original storyboards can look forward to winning amazing prizes! Please send in your drawings by September 30, 2012

Download your storyboard here

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