Fat Car
“The Austrian artist Erwin Wurm created a series of Fat Car sculptures, suggesting that autos may be too full of themselves…While thin is in, for automobiles as well as fashion models, an Austrian artist seems to demonstrate that cars are so full of themselves that they are about to burst out of their skins. The artist, Erwin Wurm, made his Fat Cars as puffy, obese, life-size sculptures that bulge like overfilled sacks. Like the thin cars, they undercut the iconic qualities of certain cars — to transform a svelte Porsche into a pudgy roadster, as he has done, is a joke in itself. The Fat Cars seem to poke fun at pomposity. Mr. Wurm has also done Fat Houses, mocking oversize homes. In 2002, he persuaded curators to put pillows inside their clothing and walk about art galleries — literally making fun of stuffed shirts.”
-NYT
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