A tremendous amount of work and planning went into assembling and installing the Oldenburg and van Bruggen large-scale sculptures in the Roof Garden. Sculptures like Corridor Pin, Blue are over 20 feet tall and weigh over 2000 pounds. How do you think we got them up there?

Corridor Pin, Blue, 1999
Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden 1929), Coosje van Bruggen (American, born the Netherlands 1942) Stainless steel and aluminum painted with polyurethane enamel, edition 3/3;
21 ft. 3 in. x 21 ft. 2 in. x 1 ft. 4 in. (6.48 x 6.45 x 0.41 m)
Courtesy of Grant Selwyn Fine Art,
New York and Los Angeles

 

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