Monumental Art

Hybrid of a Chrysler

Year2015
LocationTampa Museum of Art
MaterialsMixed media

Statement

This work belongs to the "You Can't Eat Everything That Flies" series and has traveled a lot! From Havana to the Kennedy Center in Washington, passing by the Venice Biennale, Gainesville University, Space 23 of the Jorge Perez Art Collection in Miami, and landing in the Tampa Art Museum.

Gallery

A team of installers lifting the sculpture's large wing section into place above the black Chrysler sedan, outdoors on gravel.
The sculpture's black wing section with jet-engine nozzles laid on protective padding during installation, on a terrace overlooking a river.
Fabrication studio photo of the sculpture's wing structure in red primer, carried by a group of workers, with a vintage black car nearby.
The black Chrysler sculpture being loaded by crane onto a barge along a canal in Venice.
The completed sculpture installed on a roped-off plinth in a Venetian piazza, in front of an ochre palazzo building.
The black Chrysler being transported by barge along a Venice canal, seen from above.
The black Chrysler on a barge navigating the Grand Canal in Venice, with a gondola moored nearby.
Elevated view of the completed sculpture on artificial turf in a courtyard, framed by trees and greenery.
The sculpture parked beside a modern gray building with a large circular '23' logo painted on its loading door.
Workers in Cuba lifting the unpainted wing structure over the car's disassembled chassis, in a courtyard with weathered buildings.
The sculpture on display outside a museum entrance with an 'Art After Dark' banner, surrounded by pine trees and palms.
The sculpture roped off on a plinth in front of the Kennedy Center's marble colonnade, engraved with a John F. Kennedy quote.
The sculpture displayed on gravel outside a modern museum building with a perforated metal facade.
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