BMW Art Cars (French Edition)

Thomas Girst author Jürgen Lewandowski author Ulrich Lehmann author Domingo Rivero Arencibia author Iria Candela author Silke Hohmann author Eva Karcher author Claudia Lanfranconi author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Hatje Cantz

Published:7th Mar '14

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First publication on the BMW Art Cars| The development of the "rolling sculptures" from 1975 onward| For design and art enthusiasts, as well as all fans of automobiles and technology

First publication on the BMW Art Cars| The development of the “rolling sculptures” from 1975 onward| For design and art enthusiasts, as well as all fans of automobiles and technologyTwelve years after the first Benz patent motorcar Number 1 made its first journey in July 1886, a car raced across the image in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph, The Automobilist. La 628-E8, a novel named after the license plate number of its author, Octave Mirbeau, was published in the early twentieth century. In his Futurist manifesto, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti rated the beauty of a racecar’s revving engine and speed higher than the aesthetics of the Nike of Samothrace. Ever since its invention, artists have been examining the automobile, and the BMW Art Cars have played a central role here. Alexander Calder’s BMW 3.0 CSL from 1975 was the first in a series brought to life by Hervé Poulain, lover of auto racing and works of art, in collaboration with BMW’s head of motorsports, Jochen Neerpasch. Seventeen artists have since designed BMW models, and the “rolling sculptures” have not only proved themselves in museums, but also on the race track at Le Mans.

(German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3344-1; French edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3345-8)

Artists featured (selection):
Alexander Calder, Sandro Chia, Ken Done, Olafur Eliasson, Ernst Fuchs, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Michael Jagamara Nelson, Matazo Kayama, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Esther Mahlangu, César Manrique, A.R.Penck, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol

ISBN: 9783775736961

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1740g

200 pages