All-electric art by Richard Phillips
This unique Porsche Taycan Art Car was created by Richard Phillips, an American hyperrealist artist, live at the Leuehof pop-up restaurant on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse in December last year.
To create the Art Car, Phillips applied his large-scale 2010 painting entitled Queen of the Night, inspired by the work of legendary Swiss landscape artist Adolf Dietrich, to the body of the Porsche. Printed on vinyl and applied to the car, the artwork shows a three-dimensional arrangement of elements and details of the painting flowing organically from the front of the car over the bonnet, front wings and across the doors, giving a feeling of speed with the leaves of the night bloom. Moving toward the rear of the Taycan, the painted image glides over the roof and rear wings as the flora opens to reveal the blue sky and attendant butterflies.
The Taycan is set to be auctioned by RM Sotheby’s on behalf of Porsche Switzerland. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Swiss non-profit organisation Suisseculture Sociale to support artists in Switzerland who have struggled through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photos: Andrea Klainguti ©2021 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's