Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Architect's Handkerchief
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Architect's Handkerchief
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Image View:
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General view
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Creator:
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Claes Oldenburg (American sculptor, born 1929); Coosje van Bruggen (American sculptor, born 1942)
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Location:
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repository: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri, United States) 2006.17
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Date:
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1999 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Pop; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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sculpture
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Material:
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polyester gel-coat and polyurethane clear-coat on fiber reinforced polymers
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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149 x 89 x 144.5 in (length)
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Subjects:
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contemporary (1960 to present)
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Description:
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[From a Metropolitan exhibit of the piece]...the billowing white sail of Architect's Handkerchief (1999), of fiber-reinforced plastic painted with polyester gelcoat, 12 feet high and wide, 7 feet deep, seems defiantly unrecognizable in the context of this installation, given the relative absence of the pocket square from the haberdashery of contemporary culture. While it springs exuberantly from an otherwise featureless footing like a flower from a pot, the sculpture finds its source in a photograph by Peter Blake, a tightly framed image of the signature handkerchief of Mies van der Rohe, published for ease of reference in the Metropolitan's exhibition brochure. Greatly enlarged, the convolutions of white seemed to waft up and westward toward the clouds of a buttermilk sky. However Miesian the source, the rippling forms more immediately recall the familiar billowing folds designed by Oldenburg and van Bruggen's close friend and sometime collaborator, Frank O. Gehry. (Source: Leffingwell, Edward; All sorts of
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Three
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Identifier:
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6A1-BCJ-AH-A1
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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