Feel the Healing Power of Crystals While You Ride with MV Agusta
MV Agusta has always purported to create ‘motorcycle art’, but its latest creation might be a step too far
MV Agusta has revealed its latest piece of motorcycle art, in the form of this striking matt white Superveloce that’s been ‘tastefully’ embellished with quartz crystals.
Looking a little bit like a Superveloce has crashed into a hippy stall at the local market and then into a lorry-load of white paint, the bike is the creation of New York-based artist Daniel Arsham. In a nutshell, if there are surfaces that he can chip away at and then fill with crystals, he will, and from reading the bumf it’s supposed to create the idea of erosion on the bike's surface. Right.
As I’m about as artistic as a drunk four-year-old with some crayons, it’s probably best I just quote the MV website on this one, so as not to dumb it down for all you high-brow creatives out there… it reads:
“Daniel Arsham is known for breaking the rules of academic artistry, a trait fully expressed in his signature “erosion” technique. Arsham’s avant-garde erosion method renders the concept of passing time through sculptures. Arsham’s iconic aesthetics revolves around his concept of fictional archaeology. Working in a multitude of disciplines he creates and crystallizes ambiguous in-between spaces and situations, and stages what he refers to as future relics of the present.”
To be honest, I’m still none the wiser. What I can tell you is that beneath the bejewelled caverns that pepper the bike’s bodywork is a fully functioning bike, just like the MV Agusta Superveloce we reviewed last year. And if you’re thinking this is some one-off to go and sit in a gallery in Manhattan for a week or two, you’re wrong. MV is sending the artist a further six bikes for him to chisel away at! Sadly for most of us, we’ll never get our hands on one, as MV is reserving them for its “top customers and Daniel Arsham’s collectors”. Gutted!
So there you have it, KTM is burning and to try and calm the waters for its former controlling company, MV teams up with an artist who inserts healing crystals into motorcycles that normal people can’t go out and buy.
2025 - what a time to be alive!
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Simon (AKA Toad) has been working within the motorcycle industry for more than twelve years, and a member of the motorcyclist family since birth. Growing up around British-built single and twins, it was inevitable that a life on two wheels was on the cards, from a very early age!
