Sites of the project: Ratingen, Rotterdam, Europoort, Atlantic, Äquator, Vitória, Belo Horizonte, Duisburg (german language)

Correlations of the project

The Duisburg-located steel-producer Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG imports for its production sites a huge amount of ore from Brazil. The crude iron produced is processed in steel and rolling mills. The large product program of flat quality steel is sought after by a wide variety of steel processors: from the Automotive industry to aviation, space technology and the processors of Zinc coated sheet.

And last but not least, also steel sculptors ore among to the customers.

History

It was on the 21st of April, 1500, when Portuguese seafarers under Admiral Pedro Álvarez Cabral sighted the Brazilian mainland for the first time. Already in 1494 the colonial world was divided between Portugal and Spain by arbitration of Pope Alexander VI. in the treaty of Tordesillas: Portugal was to receive the territories east of the 48th degree of longitude, corresponding to a line Bélem - Brasilia - Curitiba. The area of South America in which the Portuguese language is spoken today amounts to 8.5 million square kilometres with 160 million inhabitants. Major economic interrelations with Germany are iron ore exports via the ports of Tubarao/Vitória and São Luis.
 

Internet

A voyage with different stopovers is predestined for a presentation in the Internet. This outline of the accompanying documentation was provided for from scratch as far as conception and plans are concerned, including the necessary technical know how. With the shipping of the steel sculptures the Internet presentation starts up under www.cinema-bleu.com. All sites of the project will be presented in the Internet and especially the ocean bound passage across the Atlantic Ocean is meant to present the exhibits in a changing environment on board of the ore cargo liner in a new context.

Support

The project so far is supported by Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG, Siemens AG, Reederei Bergesen dy ASA and
ARENS LANGEN, Aquashipping Maritima Ltda., Brazilian.

The German Embassy in Den Haag has accepted the patronage for the exhibition in Rotterdam.

Heartfelt thanks go to Mr. Hans Kampik, Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to Mrs. Gabriele Weber, department of culture of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Den Haag, Netherlands, CVRD, Brazilia and Christian Leutiger, HWL-Agentur for Communication and Design GmbH, Düsseldorf

Sites of the project


Ratingen
Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 15.00 p.m.
Presentation of exhibits, intended to be shipped.
Wednesday, August 30, 2000, 09.00 - 12.00 a.m.
Grouping of exhibits and loading, together with a press conference

Rotterdam
Saturday, September 2, 2000, 04.00 p.m.
Vernissage at Gallery Kralingen, Gashouderstraat 9, 3061 EH Rotterdam

Europoort
Between October 10 th and October 14th, 2000
Depature 13 th / 14 th October 2000
Embarkation of MS Berge Stahl, Rotterdam

Atlantic Ocean
Between October 14 th and October 28 th, 2000
Photo documentation with the title Steel Ship - Steel Art

Vitória
Between October 28 th and October 29, 2000
Disembarkment

Belo Horizonte
Between October 30 th and October 31 th, 2000
Exhibition in the Federal Culture Institute "Palácio das Artes".
.10 th and 29 th November, 2000

Duisburg
Between February and March 2001
Final exhibition at main office of Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG

as per January, 02 th, 2001

all precise dates are to be found under: www.cinema-bleu.com
or by link from: www.art-lu.de

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