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拍品专文
Drawing has always been central to Claes Oldenburg’s sculpture. Yet while these drawings often serve a practical purpose, they possess a distinctive quality and integrity of their own; animated by technical control, freedom, colour, and, importantly, wit, they give substance to his vision.
Around 1970, Oldenburg’s drawings became increasingly focussed on sculptural fantasies - perhaps not so much serious proposals for public monuments as personal meditations on the comic possibilities of monumentality itself. On paper, for Oldenburg he was free to speculate beyond funding restraints and anything in his practice was made possible.
This very large drawing may have been an unused design for a poster for Oldenburg’s one-man exhibition at the Minami Gallery in Tokyo in June-July 1973. As the artist has written of this particular motif:
‘During the fourteen years since my first use of the screw in 1968 as a kinetic object, it underwent numerous transformations in material, shape, situation, and size before achieving its final form in 1983 as an arch in the garden of the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.’ (C. Oldenburg and C. van Bruggen, Large-Scale Projects, London, 1995, p.356.)
Around 1970, Oldenburg’s drawings became increasingly focussed on sculptural fantasies - perhaps not so much serious proposals for public monuments as personal meditations on the comic possibilities of monumentality itself. On paper, for Oldenburg he was free to speculate beyond funding restraints and anything in his practice was made possible.
This very large drawing may have been an unused design for a poster for Oldenburg’s one-man exhibition at the Minami Gallery in Tokyo in June-July 1973. As the artist has written of this particular motif:
‘During the fourteen years since my first use of the screw in 1968 as a kinetic object, it underwent numerous transformations in material, shape, situation, and size before achieving its final form in 1983 as an arch in the garden of the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.’ (C. Oldenburg and C. van Bruggen, Large-Scale Projects, London, 1995, p.356.)