Lawn Cars
Benedetto Bufalino
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
Lawn Cars
In a utopic new world where the car has become obsolete, a series of three parked cars are overturned, filled with earth, and covered with an immaculate lawn. It’s the perfect site for an afternoon in the sun, or a picnic. Street parking is taken over by a place where people live together playfully while greening the public space. The sight of cars reused and repurposed in this way is also a cogent criticism of consumerism and the climate emergency.
Year created : 2021
Technical specifications
Materials : Cars, paint, wood, soil, lawn
Number of items : 3
Dimensions : 5’6” x 39′ x 4’9” (complete artwork)
Weight : 2145 lbs (each car)
Notes : Firm ground required.
ARTIST
Benedetto Bufalino, FRANCE
Lives and works in Lyon, France. His ephemeral installations in public spaces were part of the events Un Été au Havre, Nuit Blanche in Paris, and Voyage à Nantes, in France; Landscape Festival Praha, in Prague; and Concéntrico, an International Architecture and Design Festival in Logroño, Spain.
