
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen collaborated on large-scale public sculptures from 1976 until van Bruggen's death in 2009. Oldenburg, a Swedish-born American Pop Art pioneer, had been making oversized soft sculptures of everyday objects since the 1960s. Van Bruggen, a Dutch art historian and curator, brought conceptual rigor and research depth to their joint projects.
Together they created some of the most recognizable public sculptures in the world: Spoonbridge and Cherry in Minneapolis, Shuttlecocks at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and Saw, Sawing in Tokyo. Their colossal everyday objects, placed in urban plazas and parks, injected humor and surprise into cityscapes across three continents.
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