Travelking
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999- 00
Materials: Installation, mixed media.
Dimensions: 800 cm. x 800 cm. x 300 cm.
Photo: Planet foto
Collection: National Gallery of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Note: A project about the eccentric and controversial Danish businessman Simon Spies who founded his business on the provision of package holidays for Scandinavians in the 1960s-70s. The installation is based on a model of his villa in Stockholm, Villa Fjolle, which functioned as a business meeting place as well as a social venue. The core of the installation is a model of the elevatable table at Villa Fjolle which could be fully laid by the servants downstairs before being sent upstairs to Spies and his guests.The project also contains a suggestion for an improvement to the villa’s swimming pool where nitrous oxide bubbles mounts to the surface of the water for the swimmer to enjoy.
Francos Transactions 1 out of 4 Collages from the installation.
Materials and size: Lamda Print, Edition of 3
Dimensions: 50 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection: National Gallery of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark & Private, Denmark.
Flyer from the Travel King exhibition at Iapsis Galleriet, Stockholm Sweden.
Text by Lars Bang Larsen.