Claes Oldenburg
Sidney Janis Gallery
Claes Oldenburg’s current show at Janis presents another maddeningly sensible group of his metamorphosed objects. More than any other artist currently engaged with the fascinating perplexities of the simulacrum, Oldenburg consistently follows through with each of his extraordinary images to a definitive form. He is so keenly aware of the vast number of conventional associations we all make with certain materials and with even the isolated qualities of materials that a frank disregard of the function of almost any object can lead him to create its familiar form in a material which has only one