Erwin Wurm and Fat Cars

 

Thanks to DC Denison for the heads-up on this, from Public Delivery: "The first sculpture of the Fat Car series was designed and created by Opel designers but didn’t really achieve the shape and size that Wurm wanted. He admitted to an interviewer in Austria that he wanted to mix something like a biological system with a mechanical one...the Opel designers computerized the process and could not deliver the kind of “natural” smooth-edged shapes that Wurm wanted. So he ended up using only the chassis of a real car. To create a sculpture he had in mind, Wurm ended up using polyurethane foam and Styrofoam framed with lacquer..."