Then I took a low res image of it using who knows what(I'm looking at you Sony Mavica FD92). Guggenheim Museum in New York City that Mehretu has creative freedom with the car, and “we will be thrilled if she makes it faster.If you want to get some more detail in an image that Paint can't quite accomplish you can always draw on paper and then take a photo of it and incorporate it into a glitchy Paint piece.

Timo Resch, BMW M division’s vice-president of customer, brand and sales, said at last week’s unveiling event at the Solomon R. It will be the first BMW M Motorsport prototype since the BMW V12 LMR won the race in 1999. Its wide, flat form will give the artist plenty of room to work, but with one caveat: The application of the artwork will have to be carefully managed so as not to compromise the car’s performance.īMW wants to win the race at Le Mans, so the art car will have to be sleek and fast. It is a low-slung beast with wide fender arches and a centre cockpit. The M Hybrid V8 is built of carbon fibre and weighs only 1,000 kilograms. 20 will be to come up with art for a purpose-built, aerodynamically complex racing vehicle. Since then, 19 cars have been produced, including race cars by artists such as Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Cao Fei and John Baldessari.īMW 635 CSi Art Car by Robert Rauschenberg is unveiled during the opening night of Art Toronto 2012, at the Metro Convention Centre on Oct. Calder examined the model, drew some sketches and agreed. With the blessing of BMW Motorsport founder Jochen Neerpasch, Poulain sought American sculptor Alexander Calder with a scale model of the BMW 3.0CSL he was planning to race.

Poulain wanted a unique vehicle to enter in the Le Mans 24-hour race. The first art car was commissioned in 1975 by Hervé Poulain, a French race car driver. The artist known for her abstract painting has less than a year to design and apply the art livery for the manufacturer’s M Hybrid V8 race car to make it ready to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June 2024.īMW’s Art Cars are part of the car manufacturer’s 50-year history of supporting the arts. Log In Create Free Accountįor BMW’s 20th art car project, the German auto maker chose Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu to follow in the footsteps of Warhol and Koons.

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