Origin of Species

Willem Lenssinck

The origin of things. Willem has no idea how he came up with the title. He often watches animal films on National Geographic. He usually comes up with the titles with his wife Catherine. If you take a good look at a horse's skull, the noble animal has a minimal brain. It can run, eat, and flee. It has enormous nostrils for the oxygen it needs to run fast. The comb on the back of the horse's skull looks just like the rear spoiler of a car. The nose bone looks like an air inlet. Ferrari happens to have a prancing horse as its logo. That made it logical to integrate these two forms. The computer made it easy to merge them. Coincidentally, there was a massive block of industrial aluminum in the studio shed, and the sculpture was milled from it. The sculpture itself contains an LED light strip that can display any color light with a remote control. Queen Maxima asked at the exhibition in the Louwman Museum (2016) why the Ferrari was not red. But red was never the Ferrari's initial color. That was yellow.

120 x 48 x 29 cm

3D Aluminum & Granite

2016

Exhibited in the Louwman Museum / TEFAF