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At the beginning of April, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles announced a new exhibition that will open starting May 5. Titled “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy,” the display will include a deconstructed Audi R8 V10, it was revealed last week.
The car is the same one used by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in two of Marvel’s most successful movies of the past decade, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War. But at Petersen it will be shown in Fabian Oefner-style.
Oefner is a Swiss artist who made a name for himself by taking cars apart and photographing every piece of them separately, only to join them again in a final work of art. The latest project of his Disintegrating series is a 1972 Lamborghini Miura shown in February.
The R8 V10 will thus be shown in Los Angeles as an exploded car, with many of its components hangingin the air by means of wires. Flanking the car will be Iron Man costumes.
“We’re proud to highlight Audi and Marvel Studios’ connection in ’Hollywood Dream Machines,’” said in a statement announcing the piece Petersen Automotive Museum director Terry L. Karges.
“This exhibit is a love letter to the science fiction and fantasy vehicles that spark our imaginations and the amazing technology of both Audi and Iron Man are a perfect example of this.”
No photo of the blown-up Audi R8 V10 was released. The unconventional piece has been commissioned by Audi as a means to celebrate a decade of working with Marvel for various films.
But Iron Man’s Audi will not be the only famous movie car on the floor of the Petersen Museum. In all, 40 vehicles are part of the show, including Warthog machines from Halo, the DeLorean from Back to the Future. Bumblebee from Transformers and a collection of Batmobiles.
The Hollywood Dream Machines is a long-term one exhibit and it will be open until March 15, 2020.
Oefner is a Swiss artist who made a name for himself by taking cars apart and photographing every piece of them separately, only to join them again in a final work of art. The latest project of his Disintegrating series is a 1972 Lamborghini Miura shown in February.
The R8 V10 will thus be shown in Los Angeles as an exploded car, with many of its components hangingin the air by means of wires. Flanking the car will be Iron Man costumes.
“We’re proud to highlight Audi and Marvel Studios’ connection in ’Hollywood Dream Machines,’” said in a statement announcing the piece Petersen Automotive Museum director Terry L. Karges.
“This exhibit is a love letter to the science fiction and fantasy vehicles that spark our imaginations and the amazing technology of both Audi and Iron Man are a perfect example of this.”
No photo of the blown-up Audi R8 V10 was released. The unconventional piece has been commissioned by Audi as a means to celebrate a decade of working with Marvel for various films.
But Iron Man’s Audi will not be the only famous movie car on the floor of the Petersen Museum. In all, 40 vehicles are part of the show, including Warthog machines from Halo, the DeLorean from Back to the Future. Bumblebee from Transformers and a collection of Batmobiles.
The Hollywood Dream Machines is a long-term one exhibit and it will be open until March 15, 2020.
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