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T.U.'s original "blue elephant", currently in a private collection in Copenhagen.
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In 1971, the Lions Club of Copenhagen asked a variety of politicians, actors, writers and others including T.U. to make "a blue elephant" for a charity exhibit to benefit a senior center in Denmark. Though he didn't think he could paint a blue elephant, he had already been wondering what the imprint of the ball would look like. The resulting event turned into a bit of a "happening," with family, friends and people passing by also getting in on the fun. The whole thing was videotaped, which was new technology at that time, and a part of the canvas was then cut away to insert a monitor to show the video on a loop, so that the painting created the making of the painting.
Original Lions Club article
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