Jacky Tsai has designed 'Voyage of a Lover's Dream' for Dream Cruises' first-ever cruise ship
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Rebecca Gibson |
Chinese pop artist Jacky Tsai has created the hull artwork for Genting Dream, the first cruise vessel for new Asia-based cruise line Dream Cruises.
Entitled ‘Voyage of a Lover’s Dream’, the hull artwork envisages an ‘ethereal and fantastical journey of love between a mermaid and an astronaut’. London-based Tsai, best known for his work with late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, has combined the essence of Chinese culture and the popular elements of western art in the artwork.
“I am generally considered a western pop-artist, but I spent my formative teenage years in China,” said Tsai. “This multi-cultural experience enables me to transcend both cultural traditions and intermingle artistic styles. I hope the theme of mutual inclusiveness and understanding is reflected in the story of this hull art piece. I am excited that my first inspirational art piece on a cruise ship is in collaboration with Dream Cruises and it is my goal to fully represent the uniqueness of the Dream Cruises experience through my art.”
Tsai has created a giant-sized art piece on both the port and starboard sides of Genting Dream measuring more than 335m in length. The artist has recreated the design using acrylic and gold leaf for a 3.1m by 1.35m canvas, which will be displayed onboard the ship.
“Genting Dream is purpose-built to meet the large and ever growing demand for inspired vacation experiences from discerning customers across China and the Asia region,” said Thatcher Brown, Dream Cruises’ president. “Jacky’s ‘East-meets-West’ artistic aesthetic and vivid, dream-inspired, creative work, embodying the boundless, elements of space and water, has been brilliantly translated to the ‘canvas’ of our ship in a highly transformative way. Our use of ship art fully encapsulates the highly personal, self-fulfilling and enriching, ‘Asian at heart, international in spirit’ Dream Cruises vacation experience.”
Purpose-built for the China and Asia cruise market, Genting Dream is currently being fitted out at Meyer Werft’s yard in Papenburg, Germany.
When she enters service this November, Genting Dream will be one of the largest cruise ships in Asia. Manned by 2,000 crew members, the vessel will offer a 610m wraparound promenade, pools, six water slides, play rooms, a rock climbing wall, a mahjong room, a mini-golf course, Asian and Western Spas, a beauty salon, a barbershop, and a health club. The vessel will also have more than 35 restaurant and bar concepts featuring cuisine from across Asia and the rest of the world, as well as a boutique shopping area with luxury products from well-known brands, personal shoppers and trunk shows.
Accommodation will include 100 connecting staterooms for families and groups, and the ‘Dream Mansion’, a ‘ship-within-a-ship’ with two floors of suites benefiting from European-style butler service. More than 70% of the ship’s staterooms will have private balconies.
Genting Dream will debut from her homeport of Guangzhou (Nansha) in November. She will offer two-, five- and seven-night coastal voyages to China and Vietnam. From 13 November 2016 to 1 January 2017, Genting Dream’s five-night cruises will give guests the opportunity to explore Da Nang and Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, as well as Sanya on China’s beach resort of Hainan Island. Following this, the ship will offer five-night voyages to Vietnam with calls in Nha Trang and Ho Chi Minh City until 31 March 2017. Both itineraries have a choice of a two-night weekend cruise to Hong Kong.