Sawt Falasteen - Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies aged 93

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Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies aged 93 / Photo: Michael M. Santiago - GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP

Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies aged 93

CULTURE 18.07.2022

US-based pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg, known for his giant work depicting everyday objects such as hamburgers, lipstick and electric plugs, has died aged 93.

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Oldenburg's sculpture was critically acclaimed and widely popular over his long career, often striking a lighthearted tone and seen by millions in open-air sites such as public squares.

Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm and moved to New York in 1956.

The Pace Gallery, which represented him, confirmed his death, hailing him as "one of the most radical artists of the 20th century (for) his inextricable role in the development of pop art."

It said he had been recovering from a fall and passed away at his home and studio in New York.

Other monumental objects that Oldenburg sculpted include ice cream cones in New York, a clothespin in Philadelphia that marked the 1976 bicentennial of the US Declaration of Independence, and a cherry balanced on a spoon in Minneapolis.

"My intention is to make an everyday object that eludes definition," he was quoted as saying in The New York Times.

T.Khatib--SF-PST

Sawt Falasteen - Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies aged 93

Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies aged 93

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