Soft Shuttlecock
Collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Partial Gift, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, New York
Canvas, expanded polyurethane and polyethylene foams, steel, aluminum, rope, wood, duct tape, fiber-reinforced plastic;painted with latex
Nose cone: Approximately 6 ft. (1.83 m) diameter x 6 ft. (1.83 m) long
9 feathers, each approximately 26 ft. (7.93 m) long and 6-7 ft. (1.83-2.13 m) wide
Originally installed at Guggenheim Museum, New York for the exhibition Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, October 1995-January 1996
Temporarily installed at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain for the opening exhibition, October 1997; at Museo Correr, Venice, Italy for the exhibition Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen, May-October, 1999; and again at Guggenheim Museum, New York for the exhibition The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection, February-April, 2001
Photo: David Heald, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao