Olafur Eliasson’s 2007 BMW Art Car
Dec 4th, 2007 by Brad
Olafur Eliasson, was chosen to design the sixteenth BMW Art Car. Alexander Calder was commissioned to create the first one in 1975. You can see more about the previous cars in my posting: “My car joins a tradition of BMW art cars”
Eliasson started with the BMW H2R, an environmentally-friendly liquid-hydrogen-powered vehicle, striped it shell and transformed it. But it needs a special chilled environment maintain its 2-ton ice covering.
At SFMOMA can see Olafur Eliasson’s art car in a installation called “Your Tempo” (exhibit details) as well as his first American mid-career retrospective with works from the last 15 years called “Take Your Time” (exhibit details). At SFMOMA see “Your Tempo” until 13-Jan and “Take Your Time” until 24-Feb-08.
There is also a PORT review of the works.
Olafur Eliasson was selected by an international board of curators which met in April 2005 to discuss the future of the BMW Art Car Collection. The board consisted of: Bruce W. Ferguson, Dean of the Columbia University in New York, Pi Li from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Peking, Suzanne Pagé, Director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Larry Rinder, Dean of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Donna de Salvo, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Prof. Dr. Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, Director of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
