Honda's View Suspended exhibit puts the Eames Chair exhibit to shame. To shame! But I'd still like to have one of each please. Created by Dutch artist Paul Veroude, the 3,200 parts that make up this particular Honda F1 car is suspended in a physical exploded technical diagram. What more can I possibly say?

On one end, it reminds me of my childhood days, pulling images of the LEGO diagrams found in the instruction booklets out of the recesses of your memory banks. On the other hand it brings me back to the Matrix days, just imagine walking onto a set in the middle of an F1 race, the car crashes and explodes into million (or in this case 3,200) parts. The action freezes allowing you to walk in and out of the debris examining all the small magnificent parts that make up these breathtaking machines. It's a gear head's wet dream come true. Makes the Turbo Wall Art look so... 2 dimensional (humor me guys).Looking through the comments over at Autoblog, it looks as though other artists have executed similar projects in the past and this isn't Veroude's first exploded piece either.


First up is Damián Ortega's Cosmic Thing, an exploded view of a 1983 Volkswagen Beetle. I didn't get to visit the MOCA while I was in LA, but if I had known this was in their permanent collection beforehand I would have forced it into my schedule. Sad.


Second is Paul Veroude's previous work, a 1987 Toyota Starlet which happens to be even more complicated than the Honda F1 piece. At 4161 pieces I believe it states that it took him 23 hours and 56 minutes to dismantle it, though I can't be sure since I don't read Dutch.

I hope this exhibit makes its way to American shores sometime in the future.