{"id":6941,"date":"2013-08-06T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2013-10-08T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T12:44:36","slug":"introducing-jacob-dahlgren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=6941","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Jacob Dahlgren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having first seen his work when\u00a0he represented Sweden as part of the Nordic Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2007, we are very pleased to include his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobdahlgren.com\"><strong>Jacob Dahlgren<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s work in our Art Across The City 2013 programme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=6789\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6789\" alt=\"Jacob Dehlgren Demonstrations3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jacob-Dehlgren-Demonstrations3-300x213.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jacob-Dehlgren-Demonstrations3-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jacob-Dehlgren-Demonstrations3.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dahlgren\u2019s work mixes sculpture, collage, architecture and painting with large-scale participatory events. For Swansea, Dahlgren will lead one of his artistic demonstrations through the city centre to the Amphitheatre where a permanent sculptural work based on the demo placards will be situated. Based upon the abstract paintings of fellow Swedish artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baertling.com\/\">Olle Baertling<\/a> (1911-1981), the work is an optimistic and artistic demonstration, with the Amphitheatre becoming a place of peaceful contemplation.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the importance of the public&#8217;s participation, Dahlgren says it is &#8216;super important,\u00a0I just felt it would be really interesting to make something in the city where I involve a lot of people.\u00a0The best way of meeting people is to do something together.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dahlgren&#8217;s procession through Swansea is on the 7th September, with a series of <a title=\"Take part in Jacob Dahlgren\u2019s art workshops\" href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=6783\">placard making workshops<\/a> happening throughout August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?attachment_id=6942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6942\" alt=\"5.6 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5.6-2013-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5.6-2013-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5.6-2013-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5.6-2013-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5.6-2013-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Art Across The City takes place across Swansea from 6th Sept &#8211; 6th Oct featuring Jacob Dahlgren, <a title=\"Introducing Laura Sorvala\" href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=6933\">Laura Sorvala<\/a>, Juneau Projects and Matthew Houlding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jacob Dahlgren is represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplacegallery.co.uk\/\">Workplace Gallery<\/a>, Newcastle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having first seen his work when\u00a0he represented Sweden as part of the Nordic Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2007, we are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,4,180,163,9,10,161,13],"tags":[112,199,104,233,234,175,115],"class_list":["post-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-the-artworks","category-education","category-guided-tours","category-high-street2","category-mixed-media","category-news","category-outreach-news","category-sculpture","tag-art","tag-art-across-the-city-2013","tag-artists","tag-jacob-dahlgren","tag-placard","tag-sculpture-2","tag-swansea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}