These are 17 Art Cars of BMW

Posted on 26-05-2015 at 18:35 by ricardo – 32 Comments”

Verfstrepen on a car slam, the whole an ‘art car’, and bring him to the starting line of the 24 Hours of Le Mans send. Forty years ago, this was by Alexander Calder for the first time done, and then countless many copies followed. For BMW reason enough to take them on tour.

The idea of the art car came four decades ago by the French racecar driver Hervé Poulain. He asked his friend Alexander Calder, a beroemdde American sculptor, with a few pots of paint loose to go on his BMW 3.0 CSL. The former BMW Motorsport director Jochen Neerpasch gave his approval for the project, and the art car was born.

In the years that followed were still controlled BMW’s taken care of by famous kunstmeneren as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney and Jeff Crown. Sometimes, they were downright beautiful, and other times they were mostly trippy.

The counter is now at 17 official BMW Art Cars, but the last one dates back as far as 2010, so, for us, there should be a time a new. An M4 Coupe Banksy Edition, or something like that. Until that time going to the BMW world and with the 17 cars. They are in Hong Kong, New York, Miami and the BMW Museum in Munich exhibited. And in the gallery below, if you don’t want to have them in real life.

Gallery: BMW Art Car Collection

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