NO Global Tour

On July 18th, 2009 and without a calendar nor defined route, appear in the Napoleonic stables of Lucca the NO, Global Tour, as an sculptural NO in black marine plywood Arial font, of dimensions of 3.20 meters of height and 4 meters of wide, and a weight by letter of 250 kilograms. After two months in exhibition, the NO departs from Lucca towards Berlin in a truck with the legal dimensions, necessary to circulate without restrictions. It appears in Milan and there visits the industrial area. With base in Bernburg, it makes a route by the ex-German Democratic Republic, visiting residential, industry and mining areas. In Berlin during Kunstforum, it escalates the roof of the studio of conceptual painter Jirí Georg Dokoupil, located in front of a centric subway station.

In October, a second NO is constructed in Toronto and displayed during the Night in White in the financial district, soon travels to the U.S.A., appearing in Hamilton, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland and Pitsburgh; always in industrial zones and districts of workers.

That same month, the NO starts off again from Berlin and it is displayed briefly in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Dortmund, having also visited its industrial belt: the Ruhrgebiet. Later it travels to Rotterdam and it is parked in Coolsingel, the city's main street. Also the petroleum refineries and the port were visited. After visiting the official buildings of Maastricht, it travels to Brussels, seat of NATO, European Parliament and others, crosses the English Channel and it arrives at London where it visits works of the Olympic Games, the Death Counter in the financial district and Greenwich. From London it is sent to New York. In New York it comprises of the festival Performa 09. The NO visits the building of United Nations, Wall Street, Rockefeller Center and other tourist destinies. Then the NO departs towards Miami to participate in the section of public sculpture of the fair Art Basel Miami Beach. The organization solicits to us not to leave Miami Beach reason why we visited only Miami Beach. During the fair the sculpture is exhibited in the park next to the Bass Museum.

A third NO sculpture is constructed in Lucca and moves to Livorno, soon in Genoa visits the seaport. It arrives at Monte Carlo and the neighboring Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. From there the NO travels to Marseilles, visiting its refineries and factories. It travels soon to Lourdes and to Madrid. In Madrid and its province the NO visits diverse places of interest and it comprises of the official programming of the ARCO fair.

During the accomplishment of the Tour a film directed by Santiago Sierra and filmed by Diego Santomé is rolled. The running will finalize in Washington where tour will travel from May 8th, 2010. Next the NO will return to Spain and Italy and it will continue towards Japan and Poland.