Art Vespa: Deconstructed, Wired & Suspended!
May 22, 2007
Miracolo Italiano | Italian Miracle (Damián Ortega, 2005)
Above is an installation art by Mexican artist, Damián Ortega, who deconstructed this Vespa PX (more photos here) and suspended it’s every component like a 3D version of the spareparts diagram in an owner’s manual. I find the concept innovative, humorous and very technical at the same time. Below is a bit about the artist who created it:
The sculptures and environmental installations of Damián Ortega transform the traditional idea of sculpture from something static and solid to something dynamic, almost as though it were the transformation of a word into a play of words or an image into a performance.
This kind of artwork obviously eats up a lot of space in a gallery. If you think a Vespa is too simple a machine to deconstruct, wait ’til you see here the artist earlier work where he disjointed a Volkswagen Beetle into its individual parts and suspended them up in the air in perfect symmetry.
Cosmic Thing (Damián Ortega, 2002)
For details and photos of this VW art, visit this page.
How about a Boeing 747? 
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keep em coming john… beautiful done , amazing! maybe this is the reason why i keep on checking your site. kudos!
enjo
At the old Bajaj scooter plant in Aurangabad, they have a sculpture that’s quite similar sitting in the middle of one of the traffic circles of the campus.
Thanks for always coming back, dmd316!
Thanks for the info, vespabelle. I hope to see that Bajaj sculpture in India even in pictures.
[...] most recent exhibit was put on in Turin, home of the Vespa, and coincidentally he actually took apart a Vespa in a re-visit of his earlier Volkswagen Beetle deconstruction. Called the Miracolo Italiano, it [...]