art & design
The Golden Sea - Fernando Leal-Audirac
In the framework of his cooperation with leading companies in the design and super-luxury sector, the artist presented in Zurich, the worldwide première of The Golden Sea, one of the sculptures created especially for Ocean Independence.
The flowing lines of a yacht have inspired the artist to create this multimedia sculpture, first elaborated in virtual reality. The iridescent colours react to movement and light ranging from purple to cobalt blue, and from green to gold.
The Golden Sea, 2009
130 x 250 x 230 cm
multimedia sculpture, synthetic materials enriched with powdered gems and gold.
A virtual transformation of the profiles of a super-luxury yacht into a primigenial shape encompassing the ocean waves, the flight of a seagull and the navigation stream. The call for contemporary and its embedding within tradition find their emblematic icon in The Golden Sea, transformed into a mysterious creature: both mythological chimera and mineral deity…
