BMW Art Car
It was a true quantum leap: when BMW unveiled the Z1 to the international motoring press in the Italian town of Punta Ala back in autumn 1988...
Just in time to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the BMW Group’s international cultural commitment, the legendary BMW Art Car Collection can now be seen for the first time within a virtual video tour on the Internet...
Le Mans. On June 12 at three in the afternoon the legendary the 24 Hours of Le Mans will officially begin. A highlight will surely be the participation of the Jeff Koons...
“By bringing together art, design, social and environmental issues, I hope to contribute to a different way of thinking-feeling-experiencing cars and seeing them in relation to the time and space in which we live.” Olafur Eliasson...
The Art Car designed by the American concept artist Jenny Holzer is adorned with messages which “will probably never become void”...
“The car has wonderful lines which I followed.” David Hockney...
“I have created both a picture and a world. Everything that is looked at closely turns into a face. A face is a focus, a focus of life and the world.” Sandro Chia ...
“Ndebele art has, in an entirely natural way, something slightly formal but very majestic about it; through my work I have added the idea of movement.” Esther Mahlangu...
“Art on art, art on technology – that interested me – especially art on a three-dimensional object.” A. R. Penck...
“Therefore, my idea was to design the BMW in such a way as to give the impression of it effortlessly gliding without any resistance.” César Manrique...
“I did not become fully aware of the BMW’s distinctive contours until after the car had been fully dressed in color.” Matazo Kayama...
“I have painted parrots and parrot fish. Both are beautiful and move at an incredible speed. I wanted my BMW Art Car to express the same thing.” Ken Done...
“A car is a landscape as it would be seen from a plane – I have included water, the kangaroo and the opossum.” Michael Jagamara Nelson...
“I think mobile museums would be a good idea. This car is the fulfilment of my dream.” Robert Rauschenberg...
“A machine should not be made to look better. It has its own aesthetics.” Ernst Fuchs...
“I love that car. It has turned out better than the artwork.” Andy Warhol ...
“My design is like a blueprint transferred onto the bodywork.” Frank Stella...
“I pondered on it for a long time and put as much into it as I possibly could.” Roy Lichtenstein...
“When everything is perfect, there is no fulfillment.” Alexander Calder...
At the premiere of the 17th BMW Art Car Jeff Koons unveiled and signed his car in front of 300 international VIP guests on June 1...
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