A box, painted light blue, wooden wheels which cannot turn. Realistic and mock accessoires, door handles, decorative trims, number plates and headlamps. A car en route with a number of passengers. The heads, simple forms carved in wood, are fitted up with hats, glasses and bows. The faces are drawings, photograph and plaster masks, as are the hands, which are drawn round a drawn steering-wheel or cast from live models. Through the solid wood front window can be seen the driver and the woman sitting beside him. The inside of the same window shows the tracellers the view of the road divided into lanes by white lines and lined on each side with dark clumps of trees. On closer inspection all the passengers apart from the driver prove to be Marisol herself. The car en route is the well-chosen setting for an investigation of oneself: who am I, how am I seen, where is my place, what are my relationships built on?
Specifications
| Title | The Car |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Wood, plywood, paint, aluminium, plaster, photograph, audio |
| Object type |
Sculpture
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Width 307 cm Height 120 cm Depth 91 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Marisol
|
| Accession number | BEK 1493 a-c (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1972 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1972 |
| Creation date | in 1964 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Kunst van formaat. De collectie XL vanaf de jaren vijftig (2018) |
| External exhibitions |
POWER UP. Women Pop Art (2010) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen @ Rijksmuseum (2023) |
| Research |
Show research Digitising Contemporary Art |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Sound
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
