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Action artist HA Schult with his "Winged Car" on the tower of Cologne's municipal museum
Source: dpa
Culture
A winged Fiesta
After an exhibition sending up the car culture, artist HA Schult parks one of his works on the roof of Cologne's old armoury, an historic monument and city museum. Franz-Josef Antwerpes, President of Cologne Region is not amused. He likes to keep things in their place ...
The winged 
Ford Fiesta is one of ten works in which "action artist" HA Schult casts the nation's "auto fetish" in a critical light on 14 April 1989.
He presents cars as clouds floating in the River Rhine or hanging by a hook from a helicopter beside the Cologne Cathedral. Schult is one of the first European actionists to address environmental issues in his work.
Before "discovering" the automobile, Schult works with another inescapable legacy of consumer society: trash. What gets the message across isn't just his art, but also the public commotion it triggers.
Schult wins the fight with the Cologne Region's top administrator: when Antwerpes retires in 1999 the high-flying car is still perched on the roof of the old armoury.
Dirk Bitzer
