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Manpukuya Mogumogu Illustrated Guide No. 2: Claes Oldenburg

The manga-style illustrated commentary about artworks, artists and the museum by illustrator and former museum curator Manpukuya Mogumogu presents readers with a new angle from which to think about contemporary art.

A gigantic screw that is also soft? In the hands of this artist, the look of ordinary, daily things seem somehow strange.

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Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022)
A Swedish-born American sculptor who was known for making giant sculptures of everyday objects.

=Works by Claes Oldenburg in our collection=
Washington Monument, 1962 cloth 17.5 x 2.5 x 55 cm
Colossal Screw in Landscape – Type I, 1976 lithograph 127 x 64 cm
Soft Screw, 1976 cast urethane on wood base 29.5 x 29.5 x 116.5 cm
Sneaker Lace, 1990 color on stainless 132.1 x 62.2 x 106.7 cm
*These works were featured at Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections Part II.
*The museum has many other works by Oldenburg.

*Reproduction, duplication or alteration of the information on this site is prohibited.


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