Paul Jaray: The Rationality of the Streamline
Blaise Tobia, Cadillac Ranch by The Ant Farm.
Conceived of by Wolfgang Scheppe
Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin
April 29 - September 3, 2023
This exhibition was centered on the seminal but little-known visionary engineer Paul Jaray, who designed the first truly aerodynamic automobiles in the 1920s but was ignored by (and later written out of history by) the German Nazi government because he was Jewish. The exhibition includes artworks based on aerodynamic automobiles, among these the "Cadillac Ranch" public sculpture by Ant Farm. Blaise Tobia’s series of photographs of Cadillac Ranch (made in 1974 just after completion of the work) was featured. An earlier version of the exhibition took place at the Arsenale Institute for Art and Politics in Venice, in 2022.
