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Plastics and pathos: The making of Oldenburg’s Airflow

June 11, 2020 by tylercollection

Oldenburg’s ode to a car, and the complex plastic processes behind its manufacture

Categories: 3D Multiples • Tags: oldenburg

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Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Profile Airflow’ gets some TLC

October 16, 2015 by tylercollection

Objects Conservator Sarah Mchugh shares with us the painstaking process of treating Profile Airflow, which took two years to complete

Categories: 3D Multiples, Behind-the-scenes • Tags: Chrysler Airflow, Claes Oldenburg, conservation, Gemini GEL, lithograph, plastic, polyurethane

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Remembering John Chamberlain and Helen Frankenthaler

January 17, 2012 by tylercollection

   John Chamberlain, 1927-2011  and Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011 The closing month of 2011 saw the deaths of two great artists represented in theTyler collection – John Chamberlain on December 21 and Helen Frankenthaler on December 27. During the course of their long careers these two artists made significant contributions to the art world and their loss will be deeply felt. Chamberlain worked with Tyler at Gemini GEL in 1971 to produce a small multiple: Le molé. The basis for this sculpture […]

Categories: 3D Multiples, Artists, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Abstract Expressionism, Helen Frankenthaler, John Chamberlain, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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Up the skirt of Oldenburg’s ‘Ice bag – scale B’

November 3, 2010 by tylercollection

Claes Oldenburg is known for his experimentation with prints and multiples in order to produce witty, large scale transformations of everyday objects. Like the other, larger Ice bags that Oldenburg created, Ice bag – scale B (1971) was given life as a kinetic sculpture, mechanically powered from within so that it rises and tilts continually, in a gentle circular motion – almost as if it is breathing. Caring for kinetic sculptures presents unique challenges, especially when they are frequently on display (Ice bag – scale B can be seen in action regularly in the NGA’s Pop […]

Categories: 3D Multiples, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL • Tags: air bag, Claes Oldenburg, conservation, Gemini GEL, kinetic sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, oldenburg, Pop art, preservation, soft sculpture

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