NEW YORK, United States — US-based
pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg, known
for his giant work depicting everyday objects such as hamburgers, lipstick and
electric plugs, has died aged 93.
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Oldenburg’s
sculpture was critically acclaimed and widely popular over his long career,
often striking a lighthearted tone and seen by millions in open-air sites such
as public squares.
Oldenburg was born
in 1929 in
Stockholm and moved to New York in 1956.
The
Pace Gallery,
which represented him, confirmed his death, hailing him as “one of the most
radical artists of the 20th century (for) his inextricable role in the development
of pop art.”
It said he had been
recovering from a fall and passed away at his home and studio in New York.
Other monumental
objects that Oldenburg sculpted include ice cream cones in New York, a
clothespin in
Philadelphia that marked the 1976 bicentennial of the US
Declaration of Independence, and a cherry balanced on a spoon in Minneapolis.
“My intention is to make an everyday object that eludes
definition,” he was quoted as saying in The New York Times.
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