Fat Cars

Erwin Wurm

Fat Cars, Red Porsche

2001

“People in positions of power …have always taken themselves very seriously. Looking back at history you don’t know weather to laugh or to cry. And I really think its absolutely legitimate to regard those people with a jaundiced eye. You have to portray them with a cynical, mocking wit to reveal them as the ridiculous frauds and hypocrites they are.” Erwin Wurm (video, gadgetking.com)

The way I interpreted this for his Fat Cars pieces is that generally speaking the people who are in the sports cars these days are people that have power in some way shape or form. They also have money and they want to show this to everyone. This is Wurm’s way of proving they are “ridiculous frauds”.

What if you view the cars a person? All these cars are fleshy tones like human skin. You don’t want the car to get hurt, so it stays in the garage and doesn’t get out much but is still catered to right inside its home. If that were a person they would weigh 400lbs., so what if cars were the same way. Its counters our idea of what we think of as the stereotype for a nice car. Even objects are subject to the movement of embracing obesity.

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