Lot 22

GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Private collection, South Australia

"The miniature cars in Untitled (What if I Drive?), with their tiny side mirrors and windscreen wipers, have been made with extraordinary attention to detail from a surprising material – melted and cast crayons. Tim Silver blurs the boundaries between drawing and sculpture in this work, transforming the crayon – the medium of two-dimensional drawing – into the content of a three-dimensional sculpture. The cars, like those in the real world, do their own mark-making; leaving traces of their tyre tracks on the walls and floor of the installation. Their ‘burn-outs' are part of its playfulness, suggesting an unseen performance by the cars as they veer off the road and strike out across the gallery wall."
(Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney)

Courtesy The Artist & Sullivan+Strumpf