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The Story
A hamburger lies on the floor, huge, soft, and slightly ridiculous. It is no longer fast food. It is a body, a cushion, a monument to appetite. Oldenburg makes consumer culture sag, wrinkle, and occupy space with comic insistence.
A hamburger lies on the floor, huge, soft, and slightly ridiculous. It is no longer fast food. It is a body, a cushion, a monument to appetite. Oldenburg makes consumer culture sag, wrinkle, and occupy space with comic insistence.
Canvas filled with foam and cardboard, painted with acrylic. Soft sculpture transforms hard commodity imagery into bodily form.
The burger represents mass consumption, American appetite, and the absurd enlargement of everyday desire.
Postwar consumer culture made packaged food and advertising central to daily American life.
“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.”
Oldenburg expanded sculpture beyond bronze and stone into soft materials, humor, and everyday objects.
What did this stir in you?