Oceanyachting Volvo Ocean Race 2001/2002 www.VolvoOceanRace.org zurück zur Hauptseite To: Dr. Krumnacker Irvin At: SEGEL.DE Deutscher Segelsport-Server Southampton, August 8, 2001 The Volvo Ocean Race Captured in Art Franco Costa, the world-renowned Italian artist has been appointed as the official artist to the Volvo Ocean Race. Five unique paintings of the Volvo Ocean Race, portraying the Doldrums, the Southern Ocean, the Organ Pipes off Tasmania (a scene of leg three), a Volvo Ocean 60 ploughing upwind and a collective fleet spinnaker motif, were unveiled on August 8, 2001 at the Volvo Exhibition center in Stockholm, Sweden. A limited edition print will be available from each original, and Franco Costa will be visiting some of the stopover ports to promote and personally sign his work. The prints and limited editions will first be available for purchase during Waterfront Week in Southampton prior to the start, and thereafter at every race village throughout the nine-month event, which finishes in Kiel in June 2002. They will be especially sought after by those who have watched Franco add, year by year, to a portfolio of work which has strong links with the sea and yacht racing. The America's Cup, Admiral's Cup and Olympics have all provided inspiration Costa, who has always been a sports enthusiast. He has also worked in the Formula 1 motor racing field but his talents extend to a music scholar and theatre director. He divides his creative time between homes in Rome and Germany. One of the five originals is dedicated to be auctioned at the Gothenburg stopover to benefit World Childhood Foundation, created by the Swedish Queen. "The Volvo Ocean Race offers diversity between nature, technology and mankind, the difference between reaching the summit of Mount Everest and Formula One, but in sailing. In the pictures, I have tried to capture the forces of battle and harmony between nature and mankind," explained Franco Costa on his work. Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE