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Art Vespa: Deconstructed, Wired & Suspended!

May 22, 2007

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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.

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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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4 comments

  1. keep em coming john… beautiful done , amazing! maybe this is the reason why i keep on checking your site. kudos!

    enjo


  2. 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.


  3. Thanks for always coming back, dmd316!

    Thanks for the info, vespabelle. I hope to see that Bajaj sculpture in India even in pictures. :)


  4. [...] 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 [...]



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