Søren Dahlgaard – Kanonkonge projekt

 

Søren Dahlgaard presents: The Human Cannonball project

 

 

The Human Cannonball

 

The Human Cannonball paintbrush technique will be realised at the Socle du Monde biennale 2021 by Danish artist Søren Dahlgaard. The project was conceived twenty years ago when Dahlgaard was an art student at The Slade School of Art in London. At that time the British Channel 4 commissioned Dahlgaard to produce the spectacular painting and to be trained by Guinness World Record holder Dave Smith Jr. in Missouri, USA. The plane tickets were booked for Dahlgaard and his film crew when Channel 4 decided to slash their commitment to the documentary film and the project was cancelled.

 

Now, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark has commissioned Dahlgaard to finally produce the first-ever Human Cannonball painting in front of an audience 28th of August. The Socle du Monde biennale is named after the Italian artist Piero Manzoni’s famed work Socle du Monde, Base of the World, an upside-down plinth holding the Earth. Dahlgaards Cannonball Painting is much in the same cheeky spirit of Manzoni’s work and what better place than HEART, which holds the most comprehensive collection of Manzoni’s work, to host the spectacular Human Cannonball Painting event.

 

The Human Cannonball project builds on the history and aesthetics of historic action paintings by artists such as Kazuo Shiraga of the Japanese Gutai group from the 1950s as well as Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni of the 1960s and Matthew Barney and Paul McCarthey’s action paintings in the 1990s. These artists added physical restraints and extensions to the body in different ways. thus developing new painting techniques where the process of painting became more important than the final canvas. The aesthetics of Dahlgaards Human Paintbrush techniques furthermore draw on Buster Keaton slap-stick stunts of the 1920s.

 

 

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