LACMA hosts BMW Art Cars by Warhol, Stella, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg Feb 12-24 2009
Feb 12th, 2009 by Brad
LACMA will show the BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg from February 12-24, 2009 at the admisssion-free BP Grand Entrance. After that, the cars in New York City’s historic Grand Central Terminal, March 24-April 6. Then on to a three-city museum tour in Mexico. Rare, behind-the-scenes footage of the four cars will also shown during the tour.
- “The BMW Art Car Project was originally conceived by the French racecar driver Hervé Poulain, who had the idea of inviting an artist to use an automobile as a canvas. In 1975, Poulain commissioned American artist Alexander Calder to paint his BMW racing car. Since then, prominent artists throughout the world have joined the elite cast of Calder, Stella, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, and have designed sixteen BMW Art Cars, based on both racing and regular production vehicles. The most recent contributors to the BMW Art Car program are David Hockney (1995), Jenny Holzer (1999), and Olafur Eliasson (2007). New artists are chosen by a prestigious panel of international judges, and BMW is currently in discussions for the development of the seventeenth art car.”
…they can of course talk to either Tom Cramer (painter of my 1977 320i BMW Art Car, or myself if they want to see the interesting/creative ideas I have for a new photography-art car). 🙂
My art car as Urban camo in front of Tom Cramer’s mural:
Art car and mural, both by Tom Cramer
I still think my art car is the only one to be seen on Google Earth…
Art Car seen from Outer Space
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90036. For more information about LACMA and its programming, call 323 857-6000 or visit lacma.org.
Museum Hours and Admission: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, noon–8 pm; Friday, noon–9 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–8 pm; closed Wednesday.
Chronological list of all official BMW Art Cars:
Production cars:
- 1975 – Alexander Calder (USA) BMW 3.0 CSL
- 1976 – Frank Stella (USA) BMW 3.0 CSL
- 1977 – Roy Lichtenstein (USA) – BMW 320i Group 5 Race Version
- 1979 – Andy Warhol (USA) – BMW M1 Group 4 Race Version
- 1982 – Ernst Fuchs (A) – BMW 635 CSi
- 1986 – Robert Rauschenberg (USA) – BMW 635 CSi
- 1989 – Michael Jagamara Nelson (AUS) – BMW M3 Group A
Racing Cars:
- 1989 – Ken Done (AUS) – BMW M3 Group A Race Version
- 1990 – Matazo Kayama (J) – BMW 535i
- 1990 – César Manrique (E) – BMW 730i
- 1991 – A.R. Penck (D) – BMW Z1
- 1991 – Esther Mahlangu (ZA) – BMW 525i
- 1992 – Sandro Chia (I) – BMW Racing Touring Car
Prototypes:
- 1995 – David Hockney (GB) – BMW 850 Csi
- 1999 – Jenny Holzer (USA) – BMW V12 LMR
- 2006 – Olafur Eliasson (ISL) – BMW H2R
