Safety Pin - New Orleans, LA
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'Safety Pin', also called 'Corridor Pin, Blue', by Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, is a large-scale stainless steel sculpture located at the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden within New Orleans City Park, Louisiana.
Waymark Code: WM12A6P
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 04/11/2020
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As an artist associated with the Pop movement of the 1960s, Oldenburg is famous for monumentalizing ordinary objects of daily life, such as scissors, a water faucet, a garden trowel, and a typewriter eraser. The radically large scale of his objects makes viewers rethink their relationship to these everyday commodities.
Beginning in the 1970s, Oldenburg collaborated with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, on creating large-scale outdoor sculptures and Safety Pin is one of these joint-effort sculptures. Oldenburg describes their method of collaboration: "we usually make decisions in our studio where we are surrounded by objects, models, notes, and drawings from the recent past and present, stimulated, whenever possible, by recollected observations of a site. We work our way through one image after another in words and sketches, testing them in models that can serve as the starting point of fabrication in large scale".
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