Still Life with Stone and Car — Attraction in Sydney

Time Out Sydney describes this artwork as this - “For the 2004 Biennale of Sydney, Arkansas-born Berlin-based artist Jimmie Durham created this installation from a 1999 Ford Festiva hatchback purchased in Homebush, and a two-tonne quartz boulder from a Central Coast quarry – painted with a face. Originally the car was parked on the Opera House forecourt, and onlookers watched as Durham painted a face on the stone, before it was dropped on the car from a crane above – crushing it. At the time, Durham told the Sydney Morning Herald, "This piece is concerned with monuments and monumentality, but also with nature; that implacable hard stuff.”

In 2006, the piece was permanently installed in its current location in Walsh Bay – in the middle of a roundabout. On approach from either direction along Hickson Rd, you can notice roadworks signs by Australian artist Richard Tipping that read ‘ARTWORK AHEAD’.” So there you have it. I think it represents nature and man-made objects colliding and maybe not living together so harmoniously considering the state...

‘But is it art?’ That’s up to you to decide. I guess this is post-modernist? Anyway one of the more interesting public artworks in the CBD, it comprises a small red hatchback that appears to have been crushed by a large piece of stone. Located in the middle of a roundabout it’s a short detour if you’re walking by the harbour foreshore or in Barangaroo. There are a few bars / cafes / restaurants on the wharves nearby for...

Great little piece of artwork tucked away in the heart of the city. Work a gander if your in this part of the city or walking by.

I am unsure of the inspiration of this one so can’t really comment on that regard. Would be great if someone felt like hunting down that information.

Only downside of this one is its location. I would have worried if my children were there that they would have tried to run...