Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen have been working in partnership since 1976. Together they have executed over 40 large-scale, site-specific projects that establish direct contact with a wide audience into various urban settings in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Their collaboration has extended to smaller-scale park and garden sculptures as well as to indoor installations. Published in association with the Castello di Rivoli, this major retrospective catalog focuses on the close relationship between the concepts of sculpture and architecture in the work of the artists and is the first to trace the development of their artistic itinerary from the mid-1980s up to the present. Lavishly illustrated the catalog features the works in chronological order, elucidated by text introducing each of the body of works. In the section devoted to large-scale projects, 22 works are examined and illustrated with drawings, models, and photographs. This long-awaited monograph includes an interview with the artists, an anthology of texts, a bio-bibliography, and two never-before-seen works: Popagesy, produced especially for the exhibition, and Three Way Plug, which addresses the artists' own history.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way

Beccaria, Marcella

Gianelli, Ida

Reference

Skira

Haim Steinbach

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Distributed Art Pub Inc

American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum/Arte Americana 1975-1995 Dal Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity/Identita Multiple

Drucker, Johanna

History & Criticism

Charta

As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum "form follows function"; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into "form follows fiction." Some of these artists create structures that intersect with everyday life, while others construct elaborate fictional systems that fuse elements of reality and fantasy. Some fashion elaborate invented worlds where past, present, and future are collapsed into one and where art historical icons and the debris of contemporary pop culture have equal relevance. All have developed new models of contemporary reality that are as fictional as they are real. Form Follows Fiction was conceived as a sequel to the 1992 exhibition Post Human, also curated by Jeffrey Deitch, which explored a new model of the human condition, pushing deep into the confusion between the artificial and the real.

Form Follows Fiction

Eliasson, Olafur

Walker, Kara

Aitken, Doug

Ritchie, Matthew

Murakami, Takashi

Ackermann, Franz

Orozco, Gabriel

Mori, Mariko

Ofili, Chris

Currin, John

Guo-Qiang, Cai

Beecroft, Vanessa

Adler, Amy

Noble, Tim

Webster, Sue

Khedoori, Toba

Laurette, Matthieu

Kauper, Kurt

Manzelli, Margherita

Rist, Pipilotti

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