Sentences with phrase «car as art object»
The museum says this is the first exhibition ever to focus on the car as art object and stylistic creation: It reflects «an aesthetic tradition according to which the beauty of line vies with mechanical ingenuity.»
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The sixty plus works of art by nearly forty artists, additionally reflect international artistic responses to an US dominated ideology of car culture — either in its specificity as an object or in its symbolic significance — from Swiss - born Sylvie Fleury to Belgium's Wim Delvoye.
Furthermore, Handforth's monumental sculptures are reminiscent of earlier artists such as Claes Oldenburg, who also enlarged familiar objects in his art, while the painted and bent metals can resemble the crashed cars by John Chamberlain.
The fourteen works on view will reflect art's longstanding relationship with the car as a cultural icon and fetish object replete with physical and symbolic possibilities.