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On December 14, 2000, John Lohse achieved his apotheosis at the
Manhattan Motors showroom in Chelsea. There he unveiled his supreme
achievement.
A few years back, at one of the ASCI members meetings, Lohse mesmerized
all who saw his slide presentation of oil paintings. Everyone admired
the sincerity of his effort, but no one could foresee the connection he
would make between art and science.
Why did Lohse believe the aspirations of an abstract painter were
relevant to ASCI? Finally, we can behold the consummation of his
vision. He has replaced his traditional media of canvas and pigment
with the most technologically advanced media any ASCI member might dream
of: a computer scanned skin on the surface of a new Porsche.
There is a significant history of artist's cars; one thinks of the "Hoop
mobile," or Eric Staller's "Lightmobile," among others. Entering this
genre, John Lohse has finally found his niche and, with this new medium,
transcended it. A detail scanned from his painted canvas, magnified
hundreds of times, printed on a plastic film, and applied to the surface
of a Porsche, succeeded brilliantly. The enchanted collector drove out
of the showroom with the original painting in the back seat, amid cheers
from the throng of art lovers assembled in the Manhattan Motors showroom
on 11th Ave. and 28th street.
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