Art Car

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A car as a work of art, taken at the ArtCarFest 2006, Ocean Beach , USA
BMW M1 designed by Andy Warhol
The Media Art Car during qualifying at the Nürburgring 2012
Front view of Further der Merry Pranksters .
1967: VW bus as an art car: Be Your Own Goddess
VW beetle as a turtle
Pop Art artist James Rizzi in front of a New Beetle designed by him

An art car is a car that is deliberately designed as a work of art . In contrast to custom cars , which are also individually designed , the focus is on artistic standards.

Art cars initially emerged from the artistic will of amateur artists, such as the hippies in the USA in the 1960s. The psychedelically designed former school bus Further of the group The Merry Pranksters became famous .

Demarcation

Art cars only refer to cars that are artistically designed as such but retain their function as cars, not cars that become parts of works of art with the loss of their function, e.g. B. dug in, concreted in, left to decay or welded in place. An artist who uses cars for works of art is e.g. B. Wolf Vostell .

BMW

Main article: BMW Art Car

The French auctioneer and racing driver Hervé Poulain had the idea of ​​having cars designed by recognized artists . On his initiative, Alexander Calder painted a BMW 3.0 CSL in 1975 . A year later the New Yorker Frank Stella covered a white BMW with black lines. These two racing cars, as well as those later designed by Roy Lichtenstein , Andy Warhol (1979) and Jenny Holzer , took part in the 24-hour race in Le Mans .

Other cars were designed by AR Penck , Robert Rauschenberg , Ernst Fuchs , Ken Done , Michael Jagamarra Nelson , Matazō Kayama , César Manrique , Esther Mahlangu , Sandro Chia , David Hockney , Olafur Eliasson (2007) and Jeff Koons (2010).

Art Cars have been or will be exhibited in museums such as the Louvre in Paris , the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York , Venice's Palazzo Grassi , Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao.

Media Art Car

The Leipzig media artist Martin Höfer took up the idea of the Art Cars again and designed a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, which throughout the 2012 season as part of the DTM at the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany participated. The Media Art Car was driven by Christina Nielsen , who started for the Farnbacher Racing team .

Movie

In 1981, John Carpenter used a Cadillac Fleetwood designed as an Art Car in his film The Rattlesnake .

Harrod Blank made three documentaries about art cars, built three such cars himself and founded the second largest art car festival in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Further examples

Festivals

Some of the most extreme and funniest art cars can be seen at the art, self-expression, party and art car festival Burning Man .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WELCOME HOME BMW ART CARS. (No longer available online.) BMW Museum, archived from the original on August 15, 2012 ; Retrieved January 8, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmw-art-cars.de
  2. ^ Bettina Winterfeld: Audience in the garage . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 6, 2008, ISSN  0174-4917 ( online May 11, 2010 [accessed January 8, 2013]).
  3. ^ BMW Art Car Collection. 7-forum.com, accessed January 8, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Peter Richter: Power Smile - The symbiosis of Jeff Koons with a car . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 4, 2010, ISSN  0174-4909 , p. 33 .
  5. ↑ Video with two penguins and a good dozen unusual mutant vehicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo_Q0BP8Agw&feature=related

See also

  • Itasha , a special form of art cars from the Japanese otaku subculture

Web links

Commons : Art cars  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files