Art

Singapore-based Ooi’s chosen motorcycles include landmark Ducatis, Hondas, Yamahas and Harley-Davidsons; there’s also a tribute to Barry Sheene’s Suzuki RGB500 in the works.

“When I was a kid there were a lot of custom cars made for bands or television shows; The Pink Panther and The Monkees had incredible vehicles,” says Coppola. “I thought to myself, I’ll make a custom car for Kylie” – and his choice for her experimental video ‘Sexercise’ was a comically modified Maserati.

Dhervillers' project, entitled 'Road Movies', sees the carefully selected classics deployed in settings dripping with atmosphere. The works hint at an underlying story much like a movie still would – with the cars invariably functioning as getaway vehicles, objects of beauty, or even cannon-fodder for gun-toting cowboys.

Fotos: Nicholas Dhervillers / Courtesy of School Gallery, Olivier Castaing

Formed in 2000 by a pair of Antwerp-based graduates, Studio Job has gained fame in art and design circles, partnering with the likes of Bulgari, L’Oreal and Swarovski. For its latest collaborative project, the studio was given a Land Rover Defender in order to create a 65th anniversary tribute to the pensionable workhorse. Land Rover’s only condition was that it remained ‘drivable’ - a line which was toed with as much leeway as possible, as you can see.

The lithograph 'Fashion Plate (Cosmetic Study IX)' by British artist and Turner Prize winner Richard Hamilton is estimated at £150,000 to 200,000 - and is likely to give you much joy, even after Christmas. 

Sound waves, centripetal acceleration, ferromagnetism - Fabian Oefner has visualised these everyday phenomena in his previous photographic artworks. The Swiss artist, born in 1984, likes to make "the magic that surrounds us" visible, and Oefner frequently does this by freezing processes so rapid that they are imperceptible to the naked eye. For his latest series, however, he has not deconstructed the mysteries of physics... but one of the great wonders of technology.

Originally intending only to create a digital model of Brooklyn on a cold winter's day, English artist and 3D designer Chris Labrooy found things getting a little out of hand - as a roadside Pontiac suddenly developed a bizarre life of its own.