The Gentleman Magazine Issue 10 | August 2018 | Page 28

NEW LFA ART CAR DESIGN CREATED TO MARK 10 YEARS
OF THE LEXUS “F” PERFORMANCE LINE
The Lexus LFA is already one of the rarest supercars in the
world, with just 500 hand-crafted examples ever built. Among
them one car has become more exclusive still, used as a
canvas for a new artwork to celebrate 10 years of Lexus’s “F”
performance models.
The LFA Art Car will be revealed this weekend at the Spa-
Francorchamps race circuit in Belgium where the RC F GT3
coupe – one of the latest generation of “F” models – is making
its debut in the 24 Hours of Spa, the most challenging event in
the Blancpain GT racing calendar.
“The lines follow this sense of going everywhere and never
stopping: a progressive life. I wanted to reach an organic feeling
by using hand-made material and liquid lines in the elements
spread throughout the car. By doing this I hope to express a
feeling of the car becoming a less defined shape, in constant
mutation in its movement.”
Lexus cultivates passion for art and design, as showcased every
year in its exhibits at Milan Design Week. This summer, Lexus
has also opened a pop-up UX Art Space in Lisbon, featuring
works by several artists, including Pedro Henriques.
The striking black and white design across the car’s bodywork
has been created by Portuguese artist Pedro Henriques,
merging the LFA’s instantly recognisable lines with an organic
pattern that expresses a sense of movement and evolution.
Henriques said: “My inspiration was the idea of fluidity that’s
present in contemporary life, where things are in constant
movement and it is hard to freeze anything.
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