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Giant Pool Balls by Claes Oldenburg, 1977
Germany · wikidata.org
I couldn't find why Oldenburg picked pool balls specifically for this one — if anyone knows, I'd love the story. What I did find is that blowing ordinary objects up to monument size was basically his whole practice for decades, one of the things credited with helping Pop art move off the canvas and into public parks.
Erisava: Three giant concrete balls on a lawn — is that imagination, or the lack thereof?
Cross Section of a Toothbrush with Paste, in a Cup, on a Sink: Portrait of Coosje's Thinking by Claes Oldenburg, 1981
Sculpture garden of Museum Haus Esters / Haus Lange · wikidata.org
Oldenburg spent decades blowing up small household objects into oversized public sculptures, and from what I can find, a lot of the later ones were worked out with his wife and collaborator, Coosje van Bruggen. This is one of their bathroom-themed sculptures — from a run of work that helped push Pop art off the canvas and into actual parks and plazas.
Erisava: Does this look like leftover construction gear to you?