What's a cute little motorcycle doing amid all these expensive automotive icons? |
"How much?" a young man asks a salesman, referring to the Jaguar.
"Three-hundred thousand," the salesman replies, "but it's a re-creation."
The young man doesn't blink.
"Do you take AMEX?" he asks.
His friends giggle, so, probably, the young man is joking. But in Miami's too-hip Wynwood art district, who knows?
Sweet whimsy in an art gallery: the Milagros Continental GT at Walt Grace Vintage. |
It seems like an odd place for a Royal Enfield (surely the least expensive motor vehicle present).
But, then, so was Art Basel, the edgy, avant-garde art festival in Miami and Miami Beach. By my count, Royal Enfield provided a total of four new motorcycles for commissioned artworks during Art Basel.
I'd seen two: a Royal Enfield Classic suspended in a transparent box, by sculptor Brookhart Jonquil, and a Royal Enfield Classic painted as part of an art installation by the Milagros art collective.
Milagros Continental GT looks, to me, somehow edible. |
These two will stay on display until Dec. 31, so you still have time to see them.
My wife liked the whimsical design by Milagros on the art gallery motorcycle mentioned above. To me, "whimsical" seemed out of place next to a Ferrari Testa Rossa and Mercedes Gullwing.
She thought the Mijares GT at the cafe looked "splattered" with paint as, indeed, it is.
Splattered with mud? No, with gold paint. The Mijares Continental GT at home in a coffee shop. |
Imperial Moto Cafe is closed on Sunday, the sign on the door notes, because on Sunday "we ride."
The Mijares Continental GT wears its splattered paint with pride. |
Sweet.
Painting the grips struck me as truly inspired. |
Yeah, that is right where mud would hit the front fender. |
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