Ettore Sottsass’s Car

Date
1988
Medium
Pen, ink, and colored pencil on paper
Client
Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin

This series for Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, imagined the automobiles of artists like Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Rodchenko, Kurt Schwitters, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Francis Bacon, René Magritte, and Ettore Sottsass.

The brightly colored vehicle driven by Ettore Sottsass, paid homage to Memphis, the group founded by the Italian designer in the 1980s.