The Great Crossing

The Great Crossing

Die grosse Überfahrt, 1995 

©usa-united swiss artists: Rebecca Schmid, Urs Lehmann, Martin Frei, Christoph Draeger

 

Performance on the Lake of Lucerne:

The original copy of the Sputnik, donated to Switzerland by the USSR, is being transported across the lake on a pedal boat (Pedalo) from the National Museum of Traffic (Verkehrshaus) to the Modern Art Museum (Kunstmuseum).

 

 

Die grosse Überfahrt, 1995 

©usa-united swiss artists: Rebecca Schmid, Urs Lehmann, Martin Frei, Christoph Draeger 

 

Performance on the Lake of Lucerne: 

The original copy of the Sputnik, donated to Switzerland by the USSR, is being transported across the lake on a pedal boat (Pedalo) from the National Museum of Traffic (Verkehrshaus) to the Modern Art Museum (Kunstmuseum).

 

Die grosse Überfahrt, 1995 

©usa-united swiss artists: Rebecca Schmid, Urs Lehmann, Martin Frei, Christoph Draeger 

 

Performance on the Lake of Lucerne: 

The original copy of the Sputnik, donated to Switzerland by the USSR, is being transported across the lake on a pedal boat (Pedalo) from the National Museum of Traffic (Verkehrshaus) to the Modern Art Museum (Kunstmuseum).

 

Die grosse Überfahrt, 1995 

©usa-united swiss artists: Rebecca Schmid, Urs Lehmann, Martin Frei, Christoph Draeger 

 

Exhibition at Erfrischungsraum, Lucerne

The original copy of the Sputnik, donated to Switzerland by the USSR, is exhibited mounted on a pedal boat (Pedalo), together with the suits, life vests and hats of the crew of the expedition.