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V-8 Universe
200319 1/2 x 22 x 17 1/4 in. (49.5 x 55.9 x 43.8 cm)
David Regan
American
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Porcelain
Credit Line:
Maurice R. and Maxine B. Forman Fund
Accession Number:
2004.11a-c
Location: Not currently on view
In V-8 Universe a soup tureen in the shape of an engine sits on a tire-rim-shaped base. Regan incorporates the domestic, the technological, and the religious in a comical mechanic’s version of the three levels of Dante’s Inferno: heaven, purgatory, and hell. The tureen lid, an air-filter housing, is an angel-filled heaven that turns around a god-like light source emitted by a wing nut. Below, the spark plugs illuminate a medieval cathedral (a mechanic’s idea of purgatory?) peopled by planets, saints, and monks carrying car parts. In hell, an endless traffic jam is fueled by the road rage of skeletons.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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Signed by the artist, in white glaze: Regan 2003
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Modern Art: Who, What, and Why?
Materials accompanying a teacher inservice presentation at MAG Spring 2008