Prova Car, 1967
Object, 95 x 200 x 290 cm.
©image: LUKAS ART IN FLANDERS VZW, 2009
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BKS002).
Prova-Car is a sort of human, poetic version of the Formula-1 racing car. It conjures up images of old, once revolutionary technological prototypes. With works like this Prova-Car, Panamarenko refers to the image of the engineer-artist. At the same time, he relativises the image. Of course, Panamarenko’s ‘inventions’ are not intended to actually work: they are artworks first and foremost. In Panamarenko’s work, technique is a slave to poetry.
"Nuvolari was the best racecar driver in the world before the war. He just floored it, never braked. I remember how he wore a kind of pilot's headgear seated in his big 'prova', his test car. (...) After WWII the Formula 1 cars got too fast, and then he indeed had to brake." - Panamarenko
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Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Spirits of Internationalism. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 21 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Exhibition: Jubilee. Studio Panamarenko. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 29 June 2007 - 11 February 2008.
> Exhibition: Panamarenko Universum. M HKA, Antwerpen, 03 October 2014 - 29 March 2015.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: Panamarenko, Opgepast! Bochten! Blijf op het voetpad! [Panamarenko, Watch out! Bends! Stay on the footpath!]. Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp, 24 November 1967 - 20 December 1967.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The collection XXX – The Museum of Forgotten History, with intervention by Maarten Vanden Eynde. M HKA, Antwerpen, 29 June 2012 - 16 September 2012.
> Exhibition: Panamarenko — Transport. M HKA, Antwerp, 26 September 2023 - 07 January 2024.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: Matter as Meaning.
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> Ensemble: The Artist / Technologist.
Related Items
> Panamarenko, Prova S. Turbine, 2004.Drawing, pencil, silverpoint, paper, 29.5 x 37 cm.
> Panamarenko, K2. The 7000-Meter High Flying Jungle and Mountain Machine , 1991.Object, aluminium, styropor, polyurethane, nylon, kevlar, rubber, perspex, felt, 90 x 215 x 330 cm .
> Panamarenko, Panamarenko, Opgepast! Bochten! Blijf op het voetpad! [Panamarenko, Watch out! Bends! Stay on the footpath!], 1967.Poster, ink, paper, 50 x 62 cm.
> Panamarenko, Zonder titel (Prova-Car) [Untitled (Prova-Car)], 1967.Drawing, charcoal, transfer paper, 11 x 18 cm.