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On the day that the world finally gets to read journalists’ first hand accounts of what the new British supercar is actually like to drive (see Influx writer Ben Oliver’s splendid account of hanging with the MP4 12C and Jenson Button here)<\/a> we thought we’d focus on an incredible piece of Franco-Latin artistic imagineering , rather than the genius piece of passionate engineering released today from the boys at Woking. Call us contrary, but there you go.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Orozco is a sculptor who\u2019s a bit on the whacky side. He likes to take everyday objects \u2013 cat-food tins, yoghurt lids etc \u2013 and alter them, ever so slightly, to reveal something different about them: to find a way of seeing.<\/p>\n

Take his Citro\u00ebn DS that he sliced into thirds and removed the centre to exaggerate the little Sixties motor\u2019s stream lining. Why? Because as a child the artist \u2013 seduced by racing and fast cars \u2013 imagined that any car could be faster if only it were a little thinner.<\/p>\n

In the way of all artists this piece is shrouded in layer upon layer of context. DS is pronounced d\u00e9esse, meaning goddess in French. The result is a sculpture that is at once clunky and sleek, in limbo somewhere between Noddy\u2019s ride and a lightening quick aerodynamic Formula 1 car.<\/p>\n

Curious? Pop along to London’s Tate Modern<\/a> to witness the beautifully spliced freak before April 25.<\/p>\n

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Liz Seabrook on streamlined Citro\u00ebn \u00e0 la Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,110,1780],"tags":[2019,2017,338,212,2530,1583],"class_list":["post-18542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-blog","category-people","tag-citroen","tag-design","tag-ds","tag-french","tag-french-car","tag-unique","manufacturers-citroen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGabriel Orozco's Citroen DS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gabriel Orozco's take on the Goddess, taking out the middle third to emphasise the car's stream lining.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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