Floor Cake
1962
Sculpture
Fabric
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
‘Floor Cake’ was among the series of monumental structures based on comfort food by Oldenburg. The dramatic shift in scale creates a Surrealist element to the giant squishy triangle standing five feet high and nine feet long.
Claes Oldenburg
Pop Art, Conceptual Art
Born: 29 January 1929, Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality: American
Died: 18 July 2022, New York, USA
Oldenburg was a sculptor, known for his public installations featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Many of his works were created in collaboration with his wife, Coosie van Bruggen, who died in 2009. Oldenburg’s soggy hamburgers, giant three-way plugs, and enormous clothes pegs made him the king of Pop sculpture during the 1960s