BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
-- Capital Cities are Competing for the Big Event
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The Berlin artist, Andre Hunger, announced today that his project, with
the temporary working title "Heartbreaker," will start its world tour in May
2008. The art project will travel to 12 capital cities and remain in each of
them for 5 months. The capital cities competing for the project include
Barcelona, Sydney, London, Tokyo and Oslo. The interest in the tour is such
that the participating cities will enter a contest. The capital city with the
highest starting capital will be the winner. According to Andre Hunger, the
final decision will be made in February 2007.
The original plan was to start the tour in Berlin, however, the
bureaucratic barriers in the city proved to be insurmountable.
The artist intends for "Heartbreaker" to engage the viewer and make them
feel their own positive energy. Andre Hunger is convinced that his art will
be successful in releasing the energy of the observer. The visitor will be
able to actually access the sculpture, a symbiosis of a Formula 1 race car
and a super bike. The inside of the sculpture will house a special exhibition
with a unique content never attempted before. In this exhibition, the visitor
will be able to interactively experience the life of a race car driver
through audiovisual means and explore his/her own feelings about the
experience in a multisensory way. Well-known protagonists will create
this "alternative reality" via photos and recordings at original sites.
Twelve internationally renowned photographers will re-create the daily
experience of a race car driver. The sound for this event will be provided by
twelve international top musicians. The sculpture’s dimensions are another
fascinating aspect of this unique art project: approx. 40 m wide, 100 m long
and 25 m high.
Completely new materials and construction procedures were necessary to
realize the project in its impressive size. The experts confirm that the
immediate realization of this futuristic work is impending. To refine static
calculations for the sculpture, some additional tests in the wind tunnel will
still need to be completed. The planning and preparation phase is over.
200 partners and sponsors are especially excited about the impending
start of the project, and they will all compete to win the first matching
offer for being the initial city where this world tour will start. An
exquisite team of 50 experts composed of designers, process engineers,
logisticians, architects and general engineers vouch with their names and
reputation for its feasibility. Partners and consultants of the former race
car driver Hunger are among others companies such as Nussli (soccer world
champion ship 2006 -- Adidas Stadium in front of the Reichstag, Olympic Games
2006, World Culture Forum) and the engineering office Happold (Pentagon
Memorial USA, Japanese Pavilion -- World Fair in Germany, British Museum UK,
Al Faisaliah Saudi Arabia). The partner network’s synergy and an intelligent
concept are responsible for shortening the development phase from the usual
four years to just eight months.
Andre Hunger himself is expanding his network by additional international
partners to have all the roles within "Heartbreaker" distributed by spring
2007. The artist was, in his own words, very happy about the negotiations he
had with representatives from Formula 1 and Moto GP and was able to include
them in the content production for the exhibit. Andre Hunger is convinced
that visitors to "Heartbreaker" will be able to feel the excitement of the
racetrack themselves.
The cities hosting the project will enjoy an economic payback through
long-term gain and improved image due to the increase in tourism. Hunger says
that the projected revenues for Berlin alone (currently excluded from the
competition) were estimated at around Euro 460 million. The artist expects to
see visitor numbers of more than a million per capital city.
"Anyone who experiences Heartbreaker in its full dimensions will feel a
new kind of strength afterwards. No visitor will be able to withdraw from the
emotional impact of this project. And when he/she walks out of there, the
visitor cannot help but feel the courage to start something new. The beauty
of it is that this is an art project that anyone will understand and that
does not just benefit a chosen few. The cities will not have to pay for it,
on the contrary, they will make money from it."
Andre Hunger and "createur visionnaire"
Andre Hunger is the founder and the creative spirit behind the agency
createur visionnaire for design and creativity. After long years of racing
cars, Andre Hunger managed several galleries and organized different mega
events. He then worked as a consultant for agencies and companies to position
exclusive brands and continued to develop innovative projects in the area of
branded entertainment. For his sculptures and energetic architectural
projects, Hunger frequently uses programs for designing jets. He thus creates
unique, comprehensive designs and projects such as the draft for a museum, a
VIP resort in Manama/ Bahrain for the opening of the Formula 1 racetrack, a
limited series of prototypes of the sports vehicle Supersonic and "green
coast", an exclusive sculpture made of organic materials looking like a
perfume flacon and stretching over 7 floors. Hunger’s focus in his projects
is the merger between man and machine. Simultaneously, he strives to put the
individual’s needs in the foreground.
For further information see:
Artist: http://www.andre-hunger.de
Treatment: http://www.heartbreakerplanet.de