Another chapter isÄedicated to Oldenburg\'s first designs for enormous monuments of his consumer objects for public spaces. Numerous icons of Pop art will be seen in the exhibition, beginning with the installation The Street and its graffiti-inspired depictions of modern life in the big city and continuing to the famous consumer articles of The Store to the spectacular everyday objects of the \"modern home\": telephone, toilet bowl, bathtub, fan, saw, and light switch. Organized by mumok, this is the largest show ever of Oldenburg\'s path-breaking and emblematic early work of the 1960s. ![]() One central point of reference in Oldenburg\'s oeuvre is the industrially produced object-the object as commodity, which in ever new metamorphoses of media and form becomes a conveyer of culture and symbol of the imagination, desires, and obsessions of the capitalist world. ![]() Not only has he been a major figure in Pop art, performance art, and installation art but he has also been in partnership with Coosje van Bruggen a profound influence on art in public spaces with his monumental \"Large Scale Projects\" in numerous major cities worldwide. With his humorous and profound depictions of everyday objects, Claes Oldenburg is one of the most important and popular artists since the late 1950s.
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