in online exhibition 55 Years of Schellmann Art
Belly Door, 2006
From Door Cycle
Wooden board with white painted (acrylic) fiber glass resin on polyurethane foam. Size: 200 x 100 x 40 cm (78¾ x 39½ x 15¾ in). Edition: 15, signed and numbered on separate label.
Belly Door was Elmgeen & Dragset’s contribution to the group project Door Cycle. Inspired by Willem de Kooning’s Door Cycle (1964-1966), a series of female figures painted on hollow-core doors, Schellmann Art invited 16 artists to create artworks on prefabricated hollow-core doors. For their edition, Elmgreen & Dragset transformed the door, an everyday architectural element that we all experience in a direct, physical way, into a partially human form. Visibly female, it directly reminds us of the original inspiration for the project: de Kooning's "Woman" paintings.
