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Metropolis Japan
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metropolis Japan
Exhibition: Claes Oldenburg's Playful Pop Art Comes to Tokyo
Playful, provocative and larger than life— Swedish-born American sculptor Claes Oldenburg 's work returns to Tokyo with the first major retrospective exhibition in nearly three decades. Pace Gallery marks its 65th anniversary with This & That, a vibrant retrospective exhibition of Claes Oldenburg's work, on view from July 17 to August 23 at its new Azabudai Hills location in Tokyo. Claes Oldenburg is known for transforming everyday objects —pretzels, erasers, drum sets—into oversized and surreal sculptures. He helped define the Pop Art movement alongside icons like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. This is his first major show in Tokyo since 1996. The exhibition is curated by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and Oldenburg's daughter Maartje. This & That brings together works spanning the 1960s to the mid-2000s, highlighting Oldenburg's fascination with multiplicity, material transformation and humor. From a knotted yellow trumpet to a vending-machine display of pretzel sculptures, the exhibition invites visitors into a world where the banal becomes bold and the familiar turns fantastical. With subtle nods to Japanese culture —reflected in the exhibition's title いろいろ (Iroiro), meaning 'variety'—this show is both playful and deeply thoughtful. A standout for art lovers and the curious alike. This & That is a rare chance to experience the colorful genius of Oldenburg up close. —just drop in between 11am and 8pm (closed Mondays).
Bloomberg
24-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
The Eternal Quest to Save Gap
By and Lily Meier When you're inside the Gap Inc. headquarters, the grand promise of California stretches out to the horizon in every direction. The building is situated on an almost unfathomably valuable patch of real estate near the foot of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge where, between the building and the bridge, a giant bow and arrow sculpted by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen plunges down into the shore, as though an unseen Goliath is taking aim at China through the center of the Earth. It was commissioned more than two decades ago by Gap's founders, Doris and Donald Fisher—part public art, part de facto insurance policy for their company's panoramic view of the bay.
