Tin Soldier, Homage to Elvis Presley - Limited Edition of 25 Print

‘Tin Soldier, Homage to Elvis Presley’, Aluminum Dye Sublimation, a Tetraptych, each piece 175 X 57 cm, total 175 X 228 cm (69 X 90 inches), 2017 The Royal Danish Life Guards Regiment serves as a guard as well as a ceremonial unit to the Danish Monarchy. While on guard duty, the uniform of the Guards consists of dark blue tunics and light blue trousers with white stripes. The ceremonial uniform, worn on special state occasions, substitutes a scarlet tunic for the dark blue. Since my early years I was always fascinated by the glorious uniform which was my prime inspiration for creating this artwork. A couple of other inspirations were the Danish Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier', one of my treasured childhood protagonists who I meticulously portrayed from all four viewpoints, adopting the face of Elvis Presley, my adolescence hero. Both Andersen's 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and Elvis Presley, had a great influence on me: the first was a model for uncompromising resilience even in the most difficult circumstances and the second was a major factor in shaping my cultural world. A reparation is made here to both of them - the Tin Soldier regains his lost leg and Elvis is brought back to life. Andersen's 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and Elvis Presley come from different worlds, different centuries and different disciplines: literature, in which the work is expressed in written words, and music in which the work is expressed in sounds. The present work of art comes from yet another world, another century and another discipline, different from the other two – painting, in which the work is expressed in shapes and colors. This artwork is a tetraptych consisting of 4 separate pieces placed next to each other and displayed as one. Each piece of the four pieces displays a different posture: front view, fuchsia view, back view and left side view.