in 1999, and made use of the Nordic Pavillon at the 52nd Venice Biennale di Venezia. He studied between 1994-99 at The Royal Institute of Fine Art Stockholm, receiving his M.F.A. 1970) lives and works in Stockholm Sweden. In the tradition of Dahlgren's search for minimalist form and his notorious obsession with stripes naturally none of the T-Shirt designs included any stars, but only stripes.
FLAG WITH STAR AND BLUE STRIPES SERIES
The series of 14 unique pieces has been preceded by a digital performance on Jacob Dahlgren’s Instagram feed from 9 until 22 April, 2018, for which the artist wore a different T-Shirt every day.Įach shirt made varied use of the colors Red, White, and Blue, the design elements of the American flag. With No Stars, But Stripes Jacob Dahlgren proposes alternative formal expressions of the American Flag, as if the national symbol had to be re-invented and stitched up again by Betsy Ross. Reportedly, White stood for purity and innocence, Red represented valor and hardiness, and Blue served as a synonym for vigilance, perseverance, and justice. Over time, the American flag has been vested with high symbolic power to unite the maturing nation under a defined set of beliefs and values. Until its current design, the flag has been modified officially 26 times. Despite the resolution from 1777, the early years of American independence featured many different flags, as the Flag Resolution had not specified any particular arrangement of its elements, such as the placement for the stars, or whether the flag had to have seven red stripes and six white ones, or vice versa. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated “that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field.”īetsy Ross, a Quaker and a trained upholsterer, who was tasked to sew flags for the Pennsylvania navy during the American Revolution, is widely credited with making the very first American flag. It was the Continental Navy which had raised the colors of the flag as the ensign of a fledgling nation in the American War for Independence.
FLAG WITH STAR AND BLUE STRIPES ARCHIVE
No Stars, But Stripes is an ironic comment on the United States of America – a nation whose society is divided about its political leadership – drawing on Dahlgren's archive of about 2.000 striped T-Shirts.
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