Golf Gti experiment. Peter Vlaminkstraat, Amsterdam. Photograph 1994
Golf Gti. Photographic still from unreleased video 1994
The backdrop to Golf Gti was the Lisson Gallery in London. This time it was conceived as an act of virtual terrorism. The idea was to find out what car somebody drives, film the car exploding and superimpose the results onto a local backdrop. During a meeting at the gallery, Dower handed a copy of the tape to a curator. The video sat on a shelf and it is not known if anyone at the Lisson Gallery ever viewed the tape.
Rob Scholte’s wrecked BMW from De Telegraaph newspaper November 1994.
BMW 325i was first exhibited in Amsterdam in early December 1994.
While the exhibition was being installed, the Dutch artist Rob Scholte was blown out of his BMW on an Amsterdam street. Scholte lost his legs in the explosion, thought to be a case of mistaken identity. In spite of the coincidence, the work was exhibited as originally planned.
