materials for the project My American Dream (1-32/32)
Upon an invitation by Pierre Restany and Alfred Bonino in 1970 to participate in an exhibition Art Concepts from Europe, Szapocznikow presented a text entitled My American Dream, in which she described her idea to create a marble 2:1 model of a Rolls-Royce car. She intended to show the project at Documenta 5, curated by Harald Szeemann, and tried to raise funds so as to cover the huge costs of the undertaking, in particular the costs of the material.
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