And you thought your parking was pretty neat (Picture: Matthew Fletcher-Jones)

From the man who brought you the melting house, comes a new quirky installation. A car riding a wave of tarmac… upside down.

Artist Alex Chinneck has teamed up with Vauxhall Motors for his latest project ‘Pick yourself up and pull yourself together’ which sees the new Corsa suspended 15 feet in the air while still attached to the road at London’s Southbank Centre.

And there you were thinking your parking skills were pretty neat.

‘I try to make everyday situations as extraordinary as they can be,’ Chinneck – who can also put Covent Garden’s ‘floating building’ to his name – said of the project. ‘I choose to do this through illusions because I think there is something both optimistic and captivating about defying the realms of possibility.’


Alex Chinneck poses with latest creation (Picture: Vauxhall)

Visit the installation from now until 25 February (Picture: Vauxhall)

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Alongside the artist, a crack team of structural engineers, steel benders, scenic artists, metal workers, carpenters, tarmac layers and road painters were employed to help create the sculpture.

‘While I am most excited by the hidden engineering and complex manipulation of concealed steel,’ Chinneck commented, ‘Others will simply enjoy the accessible theatricality of the illusion at play.’

‘Alex Chinneck for Vauxhall Motors: Pick yourself up and pull yourself together’ is currently running from Thursday 19th February until Wednesday 25th February at the Southbank Centre Car Park.

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