Flying Sails
Marc Lins’s practice interrogates the potential of pure aesthetics across a diverse range of media, including photography, sculptures, installations, and videography. His work conceptualises abstraction as a dematerialization process that inevitably creates unusual perspectives — manifesting the voids, absences, or paradoxes that challenges conventional perceptions of abstract form and beauty.
In his series Flying Sails the artist employs quite a glare approach. By removing hull, mast and rigging of some of the most beautiful sailboats in the world, old and ultra-modern ones, he creates compositions which elegantly amaze the eye through the construction of abstract imagery.
These sails, full and billowing, are the essence of freedom and adventure. Perfectly trimmed to catch the wind, they guide the observer through azure, glistening waters of the Mediterranean Sea’s sun-drenched vastness. Hovering in an ethereal way, almost ghost-like, casting delicate reflections and shadows on the water below, they float gracefully, like symbols of boundless dreams, gliding effortlessly across the surface.
Flying Sails, featuring prints and installations, is the result of a long-term collaboration.
The image shown above is an excerpt from the edition Flying Sails – Les Voiles de Saint Tropez, containing about 20 images in total. All images have been photographed during the famous regatta Les Voiles de Saint Tropez, the most prestigious sailing event on the Mediterranean coast.
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