A Car for All Seasons

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Tom Forrestall has been one of Canada’s pre-eminent visual artists for nearly half a century. His art has often been classified as ‘magic realism’ and his practice compared to other post World War II Canadian artists such as Alex Colville and Christopher Pratt. As this publication admirably conveys, Forrestall has turned his talents to a most unlikely canvas: his 1980 Mercedes-Benz 300 SD. Finding himself at a crossroads with respect to the aging vehicle’s fate, he decided to create “A Car For All Seasons”. For the six months while Forrestall meticulously painted the car, the public was invited to watch his progress and in the late summer of 2014, the car officially unveiled at the local Mercedes dealership. The reality of the Canadian climate portrayed with a hyper-photographic treatment has transformed the vehicle into an exquisite metaphor whereby Forrestall invites viewers to reconsider the status of the automobile and our relationship with it. In English and French.00Exhibition: Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Fredericton, Canada (05.03.-19.04.2015).

Genre: Art / General (fancy, right?)