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A voyage of discovery: Liu Bolin’s work was displayed as Ruinart was sampled alongside a gastronomic feast<\/p>\n
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It is at the resort’s casual Beach Shack that the inaugural al-fresco meal unfolded. Locally caught octopus with a roasted cauliflower pur\u00e9e and passion fruit reduction was served alongside a delightful Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs 2010. The sea bass and Japanese sea urchin was accompanied by a Dom Ruinart Ros\u00e9 2009. It marked the start of three days of exceptional culinary pairings that put the champagne house<\/a>‘s world-famous savoir-faire in the spotlight.<\/p>\n As for the man of the hour? Liu Bolin, an acclaimed Chinese performance artist and photographer the latest artist to be invited to take part in the Ruinart Carte Blanche residency, which \u2018empowers contemporary artists to pay tribute to the maison\u2019s legacy, while focusing on climate change through a creative lens\u2019. Liu, who had previously collaborated with Ruinart in2018, was tasked with conceiving an artwork that would be created in situ during the stay at Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands.<\/p>\n Known as the \u2018invisible man’, Liu uses a combination of painting, photography and performance art<\/a> to camouflage himself within an image. On this occasion, it meant painting himself so he blended in with the wild, natural beauty<\/a> of the landscape as the sky met the sea. As guests gathered for their sundowners at the EAU Bar, Liu stood at the edge of the infinity pool with his hands outstretched, a burning ring of fire behind him, as his team took photographs, reviewed them, repositioned, and took some more. \u2018It is through the movement, transformation and fusion of these four elements that life, our Earth, and our humanity came into being,\u2019 says Bolin of the piece that brings together land, sea, sky and fire. \u2018I wanted to draw attention to the ecological protection of the Maldives.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A voyage of discovery: Liu Bolin’s work was displayed as Ruinart was sampled alongside a gastronomic feast Ruinart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80,1905,2521,514],"class_list":["post-276782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-travel","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}