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that are mounted top down on a pedestal. The necktie spreads its ends upwards as if it is fluttering lightly in the wind. The pedestal is painted in dark grey, the necktie is coloured in light grey with dark stripes. The artwork's dimensions are 11.9 m × 8.5 m × 3.9 m
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The artwork is an ironic allusion to the business people wearing "collar and tie" who work in the DZ's office tower and in the Frankfurt banking district around.
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ordered the artwork in 1993. It was made in California.
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Sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
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Claes Oldenburg
Coosje van Bruggen
Frankfurt's
Westend
Westend Tower
DG Bank
collar
necktie
polymer concrete
steel
glass-reinforced plastic
List of works by Oldenburg and van Bruggen
Inverted Collar and Tie on Claes Oldenburg's website
"Sculptors turn to FRP as an alternative to metals." An article about the technical realisation of the artwork
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Claes Oldenburg
Coosje van Bruggen
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Geometric Mouse, Variation I, Scale A
Clothespin

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