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Vroom Vroom by Lorenzo Quinn

London's swanky Park Lane boulevard has just received a new art installation piece, and it's sure to turn some heads. Simply entitled "Vroom Vroom", the piece is the brainchild of one Lorenzo Quinn. It's built around the classic Fiat 500 that was the sculptor's first car, grasped by a giant hand crafted out of aluminum and modeled after his own son's.

The impression is that of an oversized child playing with a toy that to us would seem like a full-size car. The piece was previously displayed in Abu Dhabi and Valencia, Spain, before making its way to the neighborhood that is home to some of London's finest hotels and boutiques.

Tags: fiat 500, installation, installation art, london, lorenzo quinn, park lane, sculpture, vroom vroom

Awesome Whale at Williams

by Bobbie Leigh (RSS feed) —

It's so lifelike, you have to touch it. More than 52-feet long and 10-feet high, Tristin Lowe's ghostly (ghastly) white sperm whale installation, Mocha Dick has the look and feel of an awesome creature of the sea. Made out of industrial wool that mimics whale flesh with its gashes, harpoon scars, and wooly barnacles, Lowe's work is a marvel of ingenuity. Like its namesake, the elusive albino sperm whale that attacked the Pequod and whacked off Captain Ahab's leg, this is a whale that is exhausted from evading deadly harpooners. Mocha Dick is based on an 1839 report that a sperm whale "as white as wool" deliberately attacked a whaling vessel near Mocha Island, off the coast of Chile. That story was the basis for the Herman Melville 1851 novel, Moby-Dick.

Tags: fabric whale, installation art, Tristin Lowe, whale, Williams College Museum of Art

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