German artist Dirk Skreber’s paintings and sculptures have consistently mined the catastrophic.
At Saatchi Gallery in London, is displayed the mangled wrecks of two sports cars ( a red Mitsubishi Eclipse Spider and black Hyundai Tiburon) violently wrapped around poles.
Skreber bought both the cars "as a regular client" with the intention of smashing them. He found a vehicle-testing facility in Ohio and choreographed both accidents.
"It was fun to do, awesome and super-intense," he said. "If you pass an accident and see a car like this, it's occupied by tragic thoughts for the people that would be involved, and you might see blood. This work gives you an opportunity to see the things like in a dream. It's clean and polished and abstract."
When we visited the Saatchi Gallery, the first room we went was this one with the crashed cars. Maybe you think that I'm weak, but I cried when I saw them. I really believed it was from real accidents.
If someone don't know anything about the work and the artist and just see the two crashed cars, would be shocked, panicked and terrified.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
This picture, this work, the crashed cars hide a whole story.
Many things may happened to the cars with conclusion to be in this state. Watching them you enter the process to think about what exactly happened, the causes of the accident. Wondering what happened to the driver, hope to be fine. But with such a horrible crash, you know the answer.
No one wants to be in the same situation and do everything to avoid it. Tell to yourself that you ‘re going to follow all the rules, to do everything correct, to drive carefully. But you never know what is going to happen in the future. Just can’t do everything right and the smallest mistake could be fatal.
Accidents are happening every day, finally no one can’t avoid them. Humans turn the world like this. Everything‘s getting worse every day and result will be the chaos, in the close future.
Projects in Saatchi Gallery emphasizes at this.
