Himmering like a crystal and splintered as if by a crash into thousands of reflective pieces of stainless steel, ‘Wreck’ by Jordan Griska evokes both luxury and mortality. The life-size sculpture is a perfect replication of a Mercedes Benz S550 car, disjointedly constructed from sections of highly polished pieces of stainless steel. By taking a 3D model of the Mercedes Benz S550 and manipulating it with digital software, Griska successfully managed to translate the luxury automobile into a disjointed piece of art, without losing the resemblance to the car on which it has been based. The manipulations to the car are influenced by fatality wrecks and online pictures of car crashes, and constructed by mirrored pieces–precisely laser cut to seamlessly fit together.
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在他的作品中,Griska 通过使用数字技术和细致的手工开始呈现当今汽车工业的巅峰,颠覆空想主义和现实。这位布鲁克林的艺术家呼应F. Scott Fitzgerald的“了不起的盖茨比”主题,将奢侈的花朵与野蛮的残骸并置。Griska也受到安迪•沃霍尔的彩色“车祸”版画的影响,将数字、物理、不锈钢片的光洁性与支离破碎的汽车的无序性结合起来。
With his work, Griska sets out to mirror the peak of today’s automobile industry by using digital technology and meticulous handcraft to subvert both utopian dreams and reality. The brooklyn-based artist echoes the themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘the great Gatsby,’ juxtaposing the efflorescence of luxury with the brutality of wreckage. Griska also takes influence from Andy Warhol’s colored ‘car crash’ serigraphs, combining both the digital and physical, and the sterile nature of stainless steel with the disorder of the fragmented car.
Notorios for talking ‘heavy’ subject matter in his work, Griska’s ‘Wreck’ is no exception. With his simultaneously spectacular and haunting piece, Griska captures the dual nature of American culture by contrasting wealth, freedom, and individuality with decadence, debauchery, and tailspin, as flip sides of the same coin.