As a native of Milwaukee, I have been to the Milwaukee art Museum several times in my life, not only for the art but to see the architectural masterpiece that is the building itself. For those of you around the country unfamiliar with the Milwaukee Art Museum, you may remember it from Transformers 3, where it housed a grouping of luxury vehicles including some beautiful Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
Dirk Skreber Car Crash Exhibition at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery
For the first time, however, the Milwaukee Art Museum has an exhibition that I am making a special trip back home for – it is a crashed cars exhibit by renowned Germany contemporary artist Dirk Skreber. Best known for his paintings and sculptures featuring crashes and close calls of cars and trains. Dirk Skreber’s Milwaukee exhibit shows the catastrophic aftermath of cars having been crashed and wrapped around poles but without any of the landscape or pretense that put landed the car in such a terrible position.
Car Crash Exhibition by Dirk Skreber
The crashed cars exhibition will be on display at the Milwaukee Art Museum from November 7 through March 2. If you are in the area I can’t recommend visiting enough. And, for a real Wisconsin experience while you’re there, make sure to catch a Packers game and grab a few beers.
In the meantime, check out the photo gallery below for a look at Dirk Skreber’s 2009 exhibition at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery.
