L’Artexplorer will only be delivered in a year, but its model, arriving from Dubai, where it represented France at the Universal Exhibition, is moored in the Old Port in Marseille for ten days (until May 29) to make presentations . Because the Marseille city will be the first home port of this ship, in the fall of 2023, before a two-year tour of the Mediterranean through twenty ports in fifteen countries: Sète, Tirana, Rijeka, Malaga , Athens, Naples, Venice, Beirut, Tunis, Tangier, Lisbon, Malta…
The Art Explora foundation, launched at the end of 2019, is devoting 32 million euros to the creation of this floating jewel, 46.5 meters long, which will be able to accommodate two thousand people every day (barefoot, so as not to damage the teak). So theArtexplorer will be nothing less than “the largest catamaran in the world”and also the very first “museum ship”able to offer “new artistic experiences”.
The project appears as a kind of synthesis between the expeditions of the sailboat “Tara”, a Micro-Madness and the Atelier des lumière
Everything is a challenge and superlative with this project, like its creator, Frédéric Jousset, both entrepreneur, 201e professional fortune in France, owner of the artistic press, keen on sailing, collector and patron, who has made it his mission to fight against “cultural divide” by opening up culture and art to all audiences, especially the most distant, through “innovative mediations” and federators.
At the crossroads of arts, science and technology, the project appears as a kind of synthesis between the expeditions of the sailboat Tara, a Micro-Madness and the Atelier des Lumières, focused on contemporary creation. At each stage, lasting about ten days each time, the boat will open its spaces to visitors with free access.
A sonic journey
On board, a digital and immersive exhibition of 200 square meters will be offered in collaboration with the Louvre (of which Frédéric Jousset is administrator) on the figure of women in the Mediterranean through art. Another, on the upper deck, designed with the research and creation center Ircam-Centre Pompidou, will offer a sound journey in the Mediterranean. Headsets will allow visitors to choose their language, and the public will also be able to learn about the history of art via access to the Art Explora Academy platform.
At the quay, an architecture combining inflatable structures and containers will serve as an extension to the ship, with exhibition and conviviality spaces designed by the agency Wilmotte & Associés which will be able to accommodate ten thousand visitors a day. A 400 square meter pavilion will be devoted to an evolving exhibition on the Mediterranean Sea and its ecosystems seen through the prism of contemporary artists, and imagined by another private structure that relies on art as a vector of exchange and social transformation. , the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy.
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