Whatever city that decides to let Claes install art is a city with a sense of humor. I wonder if there are ice cream drips in the section of the photo we cannot see. Claes found a good job for himself. Who else can say that they make a living off of upside down ice cream?
Claes did meet resistance with this piece he erected outside a Kansas City art museum. He incorporated a previous feather idea into the set of shuttlecocks littered about the grounds, which he realized upon an aerial view resembled a grassy tennis court. There is a shuttlecock in the back left of this picture. Also, on the other side of the museum is a shuttlecock that must've been hit quite hard. After a fair amount of hoopla, Claes was able to go through with the project, without incident, and the museum offered art history classes to people educate the opposition.
Industry has been bent in this work, whose shape actually matches the water fountain in the background. This makes me think of industry-meets-nature, episode 7, who will win? I think the piece to be optically pleasing and probably climbable. Reminds me of some of the random metal objects Central has around its campus.
http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/ this is a good website to look at Claes' art with his partner or wife or muse or whoever she was. There are his artist statements on the work he's created. This work is in the Netherlands. What a kooky piece of art. The yellow was chosen to brighten up the area's consistently gloomy weather. What happens when an individual in the depths of a hallucinatory drug binge walk across Claes' art? I'm too frightened to extrapolate.
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