Car fetish

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A visitor examines the strange looking "Renault 25" by Erwin Wurm. swissinfo.ch

"Cosmic Thing", by Damian Ortega - a deconstructed VW Beetle at the centre of the exhibition.

"A compressed Volvo", in front of "Françoise" by Franz Gertsch.

A detail of the monumental structure "Straits of Night" by John Chamberlain.

Flowers inside and out adorn the "Ayate Car" by Betsabeé Romero.

"Ten to two" by Bruno Roussaud.

Bronze castings of engines by Fleury in front of "Bodywork" by Liz Cohen.

"Mad Group" by Ji Wenyu.

An image taken from the video "Ever is Over All" by Pipilotti Rist, in which a young woman smiles as she smashes a car window.

"Yard" by Allan Kaprow.

"Pit-Stop" by Jean Tinguely.

"Lotus and the five widows of Eva Aeppli" by Jean Tinguely.

"Jean Tinguely in one of his Ferrari Lussos at Mötschwil" by Leonardo Bezzola.

From museum to cinema…

Drive-in Museum Tinguely style, and the building by Mario Botta.

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The allure of the automobile showcased at the Museum Tinguely.

Cars, as an art form, are the focus of an exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel until October 9, 2011. (Photos: Bernard Léchot)