Land Rover teamed up with French sculptor Richard Orlinski in order to create an art installation using a full-size Range Rover Evoque Convertible wireframe.

The fact that a gorilla sits inside the wireframe should come as no surprise since Orlinski himself is best known for his giant sculptures depicting wild animals.

Of course, this here is no regular gorilla, but King Kong himself, a character who is “closest to a human and therefore the one we can all identify with,” according to Orlinski. The French artist added that King Kong has “our strength and perhaps our intelligence. He’s all we’d like to be…he’s the perfect human in a way. So that’s why he’s driving the wireframe.”

The artwork is currently on display on the slopes of the Courchevel ski resort, where it will remain for the remainder of the ski season as well as the 2016 BORN AWARDS.

According to LR, the idea behind having King Kong inside of their Evoque Convertible wireframe is to ‘transform negative emotions into positive vital impulses, to move from primordial instinct to emotion civilized’ and to reflect the key values of the Range Rover Evoque – a car “born in the wild but adapted for the city”.

This isn’t the first time LR has come up with a wireframe sculpture for the Evoque Convertible – as they’ve previously had one on display last year at several central London locations.

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