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Lot Essay
Study of a Giant Swedish Light Switch monumentalizes an otherwise mundane and functional household necessity- the light switch. Like with Giant Soft Swedish Light Switches, for which the present work is a study, Oldenburg is playing with our assumptions of what an object represents. Whether rendered in cardboard and paint or vinyl and kapok, Oldenburg transforms his chosen subjects from the everyday to the surreal.
"I try to look at the things as if I had never seen them before, as if I were a Martian and didn't know what they were for, had no idea of the function of the things, was only interested in the structure of itThe minute you give a name to a thing, you cloud or you hide the innocent vision" (C. Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, New York, 1995, p. 4)
"I try to look at the things as if I had never seen them before, as if I were a Martian and didn't know what they were for, had no idea of the function of the things, was only interested in the structure of itThe minute you give a name to a thing, you cloud or you hide the innocent vision" (C. Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, New York, 1995, p. 4)