Art Destination: Eric Sommer?s Concrete Car
A not-to-miss art installation in a shipping container in Brooklyn.
Take a walk down a lonely dead-end road in an industrial Brooklyn neighborhood, enter an obscure parking lot, and find Fastnet, one of the strangest (and must-see) galleries in New York City. Created by James Powers, it’s a 20’x8’x8′ shipping container (check out images of it’s creation) that hosts compact and incredible art exhibitions.
And on view at this one-of-a-kind viewing room, every Sunday from 4-8pm through August 27th, is Erik Sommer’s sculpture/installation “Volvo 240”: a real Volvo, coated completely in concrete.
Erik Sommer: Volvo 240, 2017
Erik purchased the car in Beacon, New York for $600 and drove it into the city (at a soon-discovered top-speed of 40 mph). Once inside the “gallery”, it was primed with white gesso and painted with 35 lbs. of concrete in 4 layers –  thick enough to cover it completely, but thin enough to show a high degree of detail. Without initially knowing the process, it’s magically confusing whether it’s a real car or a sculpture of a car. Either way, it’s an enticingly claustrophobic experience. Erik Sommer: Volvo 240 (detail)
Erik Sommer: Volvo 240, (detail)
The car was chosen for its sculptural quality and its particular scale in relation to the space (detailed measurements were taken before purchasing the car). Parked slightly to one side, it allows JUST enough room to sq...
Take a walk down a lonely dead-end road in an industrial Brooklyn neighborhood, enter an obscure parking lot, and find Fastnet, one of the strangest (and must-see) galleries in New York City. Created by James Powers, it’s a 20’x8’x8′ shipping container (check out images of it’s creation) that hosts compact and incredible art exhibitions.
And on view at this one-of-a-kind viewing room, every Sunday from 4-8pm through August 27th, is Erik Sommer’s sculpture/installation “Volvo 240”: a real Volvo, coated completely in concrete.
Erik Sommer: Volvo 240, 2017
Erik purchased the car in Beacon, New York for $600 and drove it into the city (at a soon-discovered top-speed of 40 mph). Once inside the “gallery”, it was primed with white gesso and painted with 35 lbs. of concrete in 4 layers –  thick enough to cover it completely, but thin enough to show a high degree of detail. Without initially knowing the process, it’s magically confusing whether it’s a real car or a sculpture of a car. Either way, it’s an enticingly claustrophobic experience. Erik Sommer: Volvo 240 (detail)
Erik Sommer: Volvo 240, (detail)
The car was chosen for its sculptural quality and its particular scale in relation to the space (detailed measurements were taken before purchasing the car). Parked slightly to one side, it allows JUST enough room to sq...
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