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Title: I Will Win 6 - The Creation
New York, 2010		 I Will Win 6 – The Creation
 a selfportrait of of 33 x 20 feet

On November 7th, 2010, the renowned Dutch artist Erik Van Loon will unveil guerilla art wise his sixt ‘I Will Win’ self-portrait The Creation along the course of the NYC Marathon to hopefully 38,000 runners and 260 million TV viewers in 125 countries for six to seven seconds.

ING New York City Marathon
 98 Lincoln Ave. Bronx
 November 7st 2010, New York

The artist:
Erik Van Loon
 +1 347 605 7173 (US)
 +3 163 826 5666 (EU)
 info@erikvanloon.com
www.erikvanloon.com/iww

GUERILLA ART
 In 2005 Erik Van Loon arrived in New York, without permission or a place to reveal his first I Will Win selfportrait. Determined to show his self portrait for 6 to 7 seconds to the world, he arranged a location near the 20 mile mark of the NYC Marathon by convincing Mr. Anthony M. Riccio, Sr. Vice President of the Harlem River Yard Ventures to give him the opportunity to show his first ‘I Will Win’ selfportrait at their parking lot near mark 20 at to the Bronx side of the Willis Avenue Bridge. On Dutch TV, Anthony M. Riccio explained with the following words why he gave Ron permission to show his self portrait at their parking lot:

"He's just full of energy, I mean, I have never seen a person so interested and devoted to
what he is doing.  So how do you say no to that? You don't." - Anthony Riccio, Sr.

 THE SERIES
 Erik Van Loon chose to make self-portraits as part of the rich Dutch tradition in self-portraiture, exemplified by such great Dutch masters as Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and more recently Akkerman. Self-portraiture is by far one of the most difficult disciplines in the arts, but Van Loon likes this type of challenge. 

 The self portrait series will end when his latest I Will Win self-portrait is broadcasted for six to seven seconds live throughout the world. Due to a lack of luck we can enjoy now the following amazing artworks:

I Will Win (2005): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself traditionally using the colors and elements of the American flag and the Dutch Royal House of Orange;
I Will Win 2 - The News  (2006): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself as the frontpage of the New York Times with which I demonstrated the use of letters and words in imagery to challenge and stimulate the viewer’s experience of art like Johns, Nauman and Rauschenberg did. Besides that it is also a autobiographical self-portrait in which I painted myself in past, present and future.
I Will Win 3 - The Statue (2007): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself as the Statue of Liberty by painting myself as the Greek soldier Pheidippides, who was sent from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
I Will Win 4 - The Runner (2008): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself running naked in Central Park. This selfportrait is inspired by Edvard Muybridge selfportrait photoseries Disk Step Walk. With this photoserie and other photoseries made primarily in the US. In fact he is the Father of the Motion Picture (=film).
I Will Win 5 - The History (2009): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself as a collage of friendship between the Netherlands and New York. In this collage you will find a small self-portrait of him as Neil Armstrong (who walked on the moon), as an Indian (who watched the arrival of the Half Moon) and as Hans Brinker (who saved the Netherlands by putting his finger is a dike).

THE CREATION:
 In The Creation Erik Van Loon painted himself as God creating heaven and earth, water and land, fire and air. In The Creation we will see among others the BP oil spilling at the Gulf of Mexico, the fleds in Afghanistan and Poland, the earthquake in Haiti and the volcano eruptions in Iceland.

Sixth time lucky?

 

Erik Van Loon
The Netherlands 

 
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