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Ice Bag—Scale B
Claes Oldenburg
Not on view
I am for an art . . . that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. —Claes Oldenburg, 1961 This kinetic sculpture, which Oldenburg made ten years after the above statement, brings his intention fully to fruition. The slow, almost imperceptible undulating movement of Ice Bag—Scale B mimics the body at rest, lungs slowly breathing in and out. This multiple is a variant on Oldenburg's first mechanized sculpture, Ice Bag—Scale A, which was featured at the entrance to the United States pavilion at the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Japan, and revealed to the world some of the creative manufacturing technologies that American companies were developing at the time.
- Artist
- Claes Oldenburg
- Fabrication Supervis
- Jeff Sanders, Kenneth Tyler
- Publisher
- Gemini G.E.L.
- Title
- Ice Bag—Scale B
- Date
- 1971
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Fiberglass, polyester resin, acrylic sheet, nylon fabric, metal, wood, pigment, dye
- Dimensions
- Object: 1016 x 1219 mm (40 x 48 in.) (48 in. diameter)
- Credit Line
- Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, gift of the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Charitable Foundation
- Accession Number
- 1996.74.354
