Aaron Robinson: Chris Burden Isn’t Your Typical Oil-on-Canvas-Bugatti Car Artist

In artist Chris Burden's first automotive piece, nails were hammered through his palms and into the roof of a Volkswagen Beetle as he lay  face up, spread-eagle over the car's rear. Burden and Bug were then pushed halfway out of a garage in Venice, California, as the engine ran at redline, symbolically  "screaming for me," he writes in the work's published description. After two minutes, the car was pushed back in and the garage door closed. Burden called it "Trans-Fixed." READ MORE›› Read full story » from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com

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