
View of the Atlantic Ocean / View of the English Channel, 2008/2018 - David Horvitz
about this work
On 9 July 1975, conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader left the harbour of Chatham, Massachusetts (US) to sail across the Atlantic in the Ocean Wave - a small 3,8 meter cruiser. Ader estimated it would take anywhere between two to three months to reach Falmouth (UK) - from where he’d travel to Groningen (NL) for an exhibition of his work. The journey across the ocean was part of a larger artwork entitled In Search of the Miraculous.
Unfortunately, on 18 April 1975 – almost 9 months after he set sail – a Spanish fishing boat found the wreckage of Ader’s sailing boat approximately 150 nautical miles from the southwest coast of Ireland. Ader’s body was never recovered
In 2008 David Horvitz undertook a journey to both Chatham, Massachusetts where Ader set sail and his intended point of arrival in the southern coast of England. David Horvitz photographed the horizon at both locations.
about David Horvitz
°1982, Los Angeles (US) – lives and works in Los Angeles (US)
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