Abstract
Shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen is a four-part sculpture commissioned for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1994. These monumental sculptures, measuring 5.5 metres in height, are arranged in the museum’s Kansas City Sculpture Park in various poses to represent a game of badminton in progress; the museum building represents the badminton net. The sculptures have a hollow aluminum ball and quills, resin-impregnated, honeycomb kraft-paper and fiber-reinforced plastic fiberglass covered feathers, and fiber-reinforced plastic-covered balsawood bands, all painted with an epoxy primer and polyurethane-based paint. These dissimilar materials react independently during extremes of weather over the course of the seasons, creating various maintenance challenges. While the structural integrity of the Shuttlecocks has not been affected, maintaining their visual appearance has led to the development of some interesting and ethically diverse solutions.
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