Another Beetle Art Work

No car, it is fair to say has been used as the subject for more art work than the Volkswagen Beetle.  The latest example leaped out at us  at me the other day from a poster in front of El Museo de Barrio on Fifth Avenue.  It was soft, sewn yellow Volkswagen Beetle, like one of Claes Oldenburg’s soft sculptures of the 1960s, but lifesized.

 

It is to be part of a show, originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in conjunction with the Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) at the University of California, Los Angeles, and opening here in the spring, called “Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement.”  The show was also on view last summer at  Phoenix Art Museum  Its curators escribe it as the “first comprehensive consideration of the legacy of Chicano art in two decades and the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented.”

           

Called Vocho, the life-sized Beetle was hand sewn by Margarita Cabrera, who lives in El Paso.  Her Vocho echoes the role of the Beetle in Mexico, the last country where it was built and where it was for many families the first car.  

 

She has said that she was inspired to create the car after hearing production would come to an end. (RFE)

 

“There was an announcement in the media about the discontinuation of the Volkswagen Beatle in 2003. We had three of them in my family and I felt something like a real loss, like something really shook me and I started realizing that it really was a national icon. It really economized transportation for a lot of people including my family. All of a sudden it came into the market and everyone had to have it.  Taxis  drove it, ambulances drove it, policemen drove it, all the delivery people drove it. It was everywhere, and it still is a very prominent car. The production of that machine employs so many people, so the discontinuation was like a real death. It was a real loss of an icon. Also, it was made in mass production like every other piece I made. I saw it as a machine, but it also had all of this other really important information.”

Comments

[north pacific costa rica beach]

I am trying to find the name of the artist who did the cover art for
the 1987 (also 1991..http://members.tripod.com/~v_m_smith/91scf.htm)
version of "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein...for
some reason I can't find this info (but I don't own
the book). MOST IMPORTANTLY I want to know how to get a print of it,
in any form possible. THANKS!!...

[orexis online]

The four major components of the Arts and Humanities are visual art, music, dance, and drama/theatre. Explain how all four art forms (visual art, music, dance, drama/theatre) are used in a Broadway musical to produce a unified experience

[generic cialis]

I am 17 years old and for 3 consecutive summers I worked through an agency called Hanac Youth Services. My actual work place, though, was at a hospital. The Hanac agency was where I got paid from though. So how do I include them both on my resume, because I was never working AT Hanac, I worked at the hospital. This may sound confusing. If i see any confused answers, I'll try to add more.

[Cheap Jordans]

Taylor has been buried in the same cemetery buried with micro-Bo Jackson mourn Taylor was buried today in Los Angeles Glendale "Forest Lawn" Cemetery. And her friend Michael Jackson was buried alive with more than 50 family members attended the funeral

[generic viagra]

this is fun,what a great idea for Volkswagen campaign, I was designer in that company and nobody has ideas like this one, what a shame.

[F Horn]

I look forward to seeing your excellent articles more because they are so true, easy to understand and practical. I hope you continue doing what you do best.

[ray bans]

No car, it is fair to say has been used as the subject for more art work than the Volkswagen Beetle.

[christian louboutin sale]

The Hanac agency was where I got paid from though. So how do I include them both on my resume, because I was never working AT Hanac, I worked at the hospital. This may sound confusing. If i see any confused answers, I'll try to add more.

[louboutins]

I saw it as a machine, but it also had all of this other really important information.”