A yacht or a work of art? Guilty is a yacht created by Jeff Koons, one of the most famous artists on the contemporary scene, which turns out to be an open-air and floating museum capable of bringing art to sea.
The yacht owned by the Greek magnate Dakis Joannou summarizes in 32 meters the aesthetics coming from the last sixty years of artistic and cultural thought. On the outside, blue, black and yellow make up the rhythm of the composition according to the rules of Razzle-Dazzle, the naval mimesis technique invented during the Second World War by Norman Wilkinson. Inside, the taste changes with the passage at the helm of Ivana Porfiri, an Italian yacht designer.
Among the living spaces, the pop taste turns into radical design and distorts the traditional sense of interior design. In fact, Guilty hosts some of the most important artistic testimonies of the century in its belly. The light that penetrates from the long windows to the ground illuminates Anish Kapoor's work Hex Mirror, and continues its mad rush on eccentric and fluorescent furniture. On the ground, it is a succession of anthropomorphic giant seats, while on the flybridge there are the ethereal Fat Sofa creations by Patricia Urquiola.The main cabin hosts a 180-degree view, where the installation Feelings by Martin Creed, towers over what can be defined as common bed.
Dakis Joannou, Guilty wanted a work within the work, which through the site-specific form, contributes to spreading the artistic word through the breaking of traditional aesthetic canons. “We have designed a boat with an anti-style criterion, we have no rules, programs or plans.” A goal fully achieved!