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Claes Oldenburg (American (born Sweden), 1929–2022)
Claes Oldenburg, Giant Three-Way Plug, 1970, mahogany veneer over wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 71.7. More by Artist
Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London. ‘Giant 3-Way Plug Scale 2/3‘, Claes Oldenburg, 1970.
Dimensions: 58 inches × 39 inches × 28 1/2 inches (147.3 × 99.1 × 72.4 cm) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: Purchased with the Fiske Kimball Fund and with funds contributed by the Daniel W. Dietrich Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. David N. Pincus, Dr. and Mrs. William Wolgin, and anonymous donors, 1983. Accession Number:
Oldenburg also remarked that if Plug were installed with the prongs embedded in the ground, the idea of contact, or plugging in, would have been lost. In 1970, during a visit to finalize the site, Oldenburg said, "there are plugs lying around in drawers all over the world; they are nothing until contact is made."
ABSTRACT. Claes Oldenburg created his monumental COR-TEN and bronze sculpture Giant Th ree-Way Plug, Scale A in 1970. He viewed the piece as a coming together of the mechanical and the organic, and he anticipated the evolution of its patina as a refl ection of the “events of nature” around it.
Claes Oldenburg created his monumental sculpture Giant Three-Way Plug in 1970. He viewed the piece as a coming together of the mechanical and the organic, and he anticipated the evolution of its patina as a reflection of the” events of nature” around it.
