70 x 7 The Meal Act XII, Amiens, 2001

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Date: 2001
Matériaux: Open-air picnic, silkscreen printed runner (Ed 1500m)
Exhibition history: 2009 Musée de Picardie Amiens France
Courtesy: The Artists

Commissioned by the Musée de Picardie, the twelfth Act of 70 x 7 The Meal took the form of an open-air picnic in the French city of Amiens’s in celebration of the Year of Mexico. The artists created a 1,500 metre picnic cloth, which was laid along the river banks in the Parc de Beauvillé. The cloth was designed into sections, to be cut and taken home at the end of the meal.