The Parking Space For JING CT9953, Jiang Xinyu, "The Section of Experimental Art at the 19th National Art Exhibition"

JING CT 9953 is the number plate for the artist’s second-hand Jetta car, which after eight years has reached its end of cycle. At the beginning, it was emotional: “ I know I am not able to keep it, but I just want to give it a special end. That is why I have dismantled, scrapped my car into pieces and re-assembled them… I have preserved it in my own way.” However, unexpected visual aesthetics have emerged from the expressive patterns of these car pieces, like a phoenix nirvana.
Moved by their visual impact, the artist has once consider to hang them on walls like paintings, but then this whole set will lose its original function for use. Eventually, he assembles twenty-eight pieces of “thick paintings” into the shape of a parking space and holds a ritual with exhibits showing as if the auto racing towards the viewer in its full speed. Although the car can never park into the space in reality, the artist considers the assembled “parking space” as its second artistic rebirth.