Footnote:
Auf dem Mappenumschlag: "a group exhibition at sea initiated/curated by Nico Dockx"
Auflage: 250 Exemplare, nummeriert und signiert
With contributions by Nico Dockx, Leif Elggren, Yona Friedman, Alexis Gautier, Liam Gillick, Cari Gonzalez-Casanova, Heide Hinrichs, Karl Holmqvist, Ann Veronica Janssens, Koo Jeong A, Zak Kyes, Jan Mast, Pat McCarthy, Jonas Mekas, Philip Metten, Jean-Michel Meyers, Maurizio Nannucci, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anri Sala, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luc Tuymans, Luca Vitone, and Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Marseille, 12 Boats, 4 exhibitions on the Mediterranean Sea (2016-2020)
Description:
"Avec le vent is a work in public space that has been initiated and developed as a prototype version in 2015-2016 by Belgian artist Nico Dockx in close collaboration with some local sailors of the Société Nautique de Marseille as well as colleague artist Cari Gonzalez-Casanova, and which took place in the form of two sailing trips on the Mediterranean Sea around end of August and early September 2016 departing from Le Vieux-Port de Marseille. For this work in public space, seventeen friends/Artists were invited to design 16 sails especially for this event: Nico Dockx & Jan Mast, Alexis Gautier, Cari Gonzalez-Casanova, Heide Hinrichs, Karl Holmqvist, Ann Veronica Janssens, Zak Kyes & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pat McCarthy, Jonas Mekas, Philip Metten, Jean-Michel Meyers, Maurizio Nannucci, Ouragan, Anri Sala, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luca Vitone"--