While engineers grapple with new automotive technologies, "artists seem to be re-thinking the automobile as a symbol," reports Phil Patton in the New York Times (4/4/10). Erwin Wurm, an Austrian artist, sees cars as "so full of themselves that they are about to burst out of their skins." Erwin's creations, which he calls Fat Cars, are "puffy, obese, life-size sculptures that bulge like overfilled sacks (other images). "
His intent is to "undercut the iconic qualities of certain cars -- to transform a svelte Porsche into a pudgy roadster," for instance. Erwin accomplishes this by using "the chassis of an actual car," and creating the fat using "polyurethane foam and Styrofoam covered with lacquer." He's been at this since 2004, but he wasn't the first artist to take a swipe at automotive icons. In 1993,Gabirel Orozco, a Mexican artist, took on the Citroen DS, which is a "symbol of national pride in France."
In fact, the DS in France is known as La Deesse, or "the goddess." Well, Gabriel cut "two feet out of her middle to make "a 'car' not quite 45 inches wide." La DS, as he called it, was recently displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, which said the car "deliberately blurs the boundaries between the art object and the everyday environment." Gabriel says his point was "to deconstruct a cultural icon that is not just an icon, because it is also a machine that has a function, and to remake it on its own logic."
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