997 Gets "Cubed" - Not for the weak hearted!
 

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I feel like doing that to my car on some days.

Why?? I don't speak German, but it looks like someone wanted to create art????

Stupid. Now, burying some old Cadillacs nose down, tail high was a good one.

"Art" For those too stupid to understand the "art of engineering," I suppose.

That was really realy stupid

Truly very, very stupid. Those whacky Austrians, eh?

The guy in the soundtrack claims this is sculpture, and that the sculpture is a metaphor for the transitory nature of all things on this earth. No $hit Sherlock!

Maybe it should have said 'not for the strong of mind.'

what's the difference between this and some rich idiot wrapping it around a telephone pole? Or stuffing it at the track because he doesn't know any better? At least there was an intention here...

Same reason you don't use a bannana to hammer a nail. At least if it gets wrapped around a pole at a track, it was involved in the activity for which it was designed.

This just furthers PT Barnums axiom.

Then again, some doofus will probably north of a million for the "art" that was created here.

A Darwin award?

at least the track guy is using the machine as in tended ...well, perhaps a bit beyond. And then it still has life left in the parts.

One day, some "artist" will take the Mona Lisa, crumple it up into a ball, dump donkey crap on it, and proclaim to have produced real art. :rolleyes:

Yes. And it is that intention that makes this incredibly stupid.

if he had used a Prius, would it be equally as stupid?

A Prius on the track? Why would . .. OH, you mean for the crusher. Boy, that would have made for a toxic mess.

i'm sorry but crushing a car (any car) into a cube with hydraulics is not art. it's just dumb.

It was time for an oil change, and well... a new car has new oil already in it.

in your opinion...

I dont see how this is art as there was no creativity involved, he used a machine to crush a car. Do the guys working at that site everyday consider themselves artists? Are all the crushed cars art?

I'd say the artist has been successful if my interpretation is correct (only the artist can say). I believe the intent was most likely to perform an act to which people would respond in various ways. The gallery "sculpture" is, in addition to the video, documentation of that act rather than sculpture in the academic sense.

Some less than wealthy and bitter people may respond "Yeah, take those rich bstarads toys and crush 'em!

Others may say "Ah yes! Materialsm is so insipid and ephemeral!" or something equally profound.

Then there are those who'll say "Dayum! That was stupid! They coulda' given it to me!"

Of course there are those who will identify intellectually and/or emotionally with the object the artist has chosen to use "See outraged comments on this BBS!".

Whether you limit your definition of art to still life, portraits, landscapes, etc. or take a broader view really doesn't matter to the artist, whose work's raison d'etre is to involve the viewer and elicit a response - and it doesn't matter one whit to the artist whether he is seen by the responders to even be an artist.

I'd speculate that the artist chose the Porsche because its of its iconic status - almost guaranteed to get a rise out of most people.

Whatever your response, you are participating and that's all the artist is interested in :).

Good chance that it was destined to be destroyed, anyway. Maybe it was a pre-production model?