Art and cars: as good symbols of popular culture, cars have their place when we talk about sculptures, paintings or even graffiti. What you see in this photo is a recent example: it looks like a Pay attentionbut in reality it is a Full-scale reproduction sculpted entirely with coins.
It is the work of the Uruguayan artist Joaquin Arbiza and has shown it in Miami Art Baselan art event where exclusive cars, as limited as they are expensive, are also exhibited. The icing is put by a portrait of himself Lionel Messiwhich appears on the front of this sculptural Zonda.
With 500,000 soldering tips and three years to sculpt it
Arbiza likes to make sculptures from scrap metal. This is how the artist defines it on your Facebook page. Where is it from? Pay attention based on golden coins is, as pointed outthe one that has required the most pieces and welding points: “More than all my previous works combined.”
The work reproduces in great detail a Pagani Zonda F, conceived with more than 100,000 gold-plated Uruguayan pesos and has required more than half a million welding points. Ariza has worked for three years to make it possible and finally finished it in November.
A Pagani Zonda Made of Pure Coins
A Zonda like no other—crafted entirely from coins. Over 100,000 coins were used to create this shell, with Messi’s face even printed on the front. A true work of art, though strictly for display.#PaganiZonda #AutomotiveArt #CreativeDesign… pic.twitter.com/cNsUN0SneC
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Beyond welding the coins, he has also had to shape some of them in order to reproduce the curved lines of the exclusive Italian hypercar, of which only 25 units were manufactured. Once conceived, it has decorated with the face of Argentine star Leo Messi. Something that draws attention since Arbiza is Uruguayan, given the traditional rivalry between both countries. Which of course, and quite a bit, includes football.
The key is found in the patron of this sculpture: Jorge Gómez. Argentinean, businessman, billionaire and car collectoris the one who has given you this assignment. That he is a Zonda is not a coincidence either: he became the first Argentine in buy a hypercar from Horacio Pagani. That is to say, the portrait of Messi, which stands out for being painted in black on the surface of coins on the front, may have been a mere nod to Gómez’s idol or he directly requested it that way.
Pagani has also helped make this work possible, since Arbiza includes the firm in the acknowledgments. First for reproducing a registered design, but surely they have also provided you with material so that you can faithfully trace the Pagani Zonda F. This reproduction obviously does not include the 7.3 liter V12 and more than 600 HP that gave life to the Zonda F, but the work is worth evaluating given that it looks like a real Zonda. Therefore, whether it is better or worse for the eyes is a matter of taste.
With about 1,250 kg weight and given that it is the same size as a Pagani Zonda F, we are talking about a sculpture that exceeds 4.0 m in length, 2.0 m in height and 1.4 m in height. Far from keeping it in his house, Gómez has allowed Arbiza to exhibit it at Art Basel, as he will surely do in other art or high-flying car exhibitions.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
