X-ray 1990 Mini Cooper

[DaveShreeve]

Guys, the following mail was received today in the forum mailbox, you may find it interesting:

Dear Sirs,

My name is Rachel Verghis and I am the Sales Director of a gallery in
Mayfair London called Maddox Arts. We are currently exhibiting an
artist called Nick Veasey who has been getting a substantial amount of
press recently - especially as he was commissioned by the Victoria and
Albert Museum to X-Ray the Mini on the occasion of its 50th birthday
this year.

I have attached a picture of this artwork which is has taken the
artist 3 months, separately x-raying 300 of its components to
construct the finished product - which is 98% the size of the mini
itself! I thought this piece might be of interest to your
organisation. The smaller version of this piece now forms part of the
V&A's permanent collection.




The artwork is 1800 x 3000mm long and is printed on Archival C-Type
Diasec.

More details on the artist's other works can be found on the gallery
website www.maddoxarts.com and I have also attached a press release on
the artist, some articles and the most recent BBC and German tv
footage on the show.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8341415.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0N5_UWKahc
Mini.jpg

nick with parts lo-res.jpg

[oz]

OMG!! That's amazing!!!

[surfblue63]

That X-Ray looks pretty effective, makes a change to having an Italian Job print on the wall.

Here's some more MINI art, and guys, be careful what you by her indoors for christmas or you could be waking up to find you MINI like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JliW2RUh0Cg

[mab01]

Looks like it could have done with some replacement outer sills in the parts photo!

[minorparts]

You're right! But we'd all be complaining if they'd cut up a rust-free example!

[taffy1967]

Rust free example? Well that's been done recently when they cut in half a low mileage MKI to put in a museum.

Anyway surely that's a Mini Mayfair and not a Cooper?