Andrea Lunetta’s car series explores our human impact on the natural environment, with a focus on cars, which have been the demonized central image of climate change. The series recognizes the crucial impact that the car has had on our society, and its tendency to reflect popular design trends of the time.
In an era of colorlessness in which corporations try to divorce beauty from commercialism in order to maximize profits, the colors of the cars are switched from the drab and neutral that line our streets to vibrant, even feminine colors, swaddled by flowing, organic matter that make up the background. The cars are set against motifs that are inspired by folk art, historical archives, and the natural world to create a dreamscape that beckons your eyes to rest in what should be in our human-made world: vibrancy, color, playfulness, ornamentation, beauty.
Andrea Lunetta’s artistic practice displays a fascination with viewing everyday objects as an opportunity to ornament and tempts the viewer to look closer at the beauty of an object that is so common and functional it borders on invisible. The themes also raise questions of America’s car-obsessed culture in the midst of climate change. Andrea Lunetta’s biggest inspirations come from Florine Stettheimer, Nikki de Saint Phalle, and Georgia O’Keefe, and Mother Earth.
