BMW Art Cars in Singapour

Jon, I don't know... looks like something my kids painted

 

Hmm..I drove past VCH last nite and was wondering whats' tis was all about. Looks interesting. When will the exhibition end?

 

Stella's CS looks hot!

 

Yup. Frank Stella's CSL has always been my favorite BMW Art Car too.

In fact, BMW raced a couple CSLs painted just like that back in 1976.

 

Bro..it's an M1...

I've seen them before in DE, a long time ago. One of my faves was the WTC M635CSi with the 'Original Teile'(original spare parts) artwork. Something like Stella's 3.0CSL with the graph lines but with a sectional rendering of the motor, propshaft, seats et all, as if the car's X-rayed...!

 

Yup M1. Story is that they brought Andy Warhol to the car with the paint cans, etc. but he finished the car before the photographer arrived (I guess they also wanted to photograph him while he was doing the work).

Both Andy and Roy are from the Pop Art genre - Roy famous for his blown up "comic" panels.

The Stella car, I believe, is a 3.0CSL aka Batmobile (due to the spoilers, fins, etc.) on steroids. The collection you saw is but a small sampling of the entire collection. I think there's an E36 M3, an 8-series, and a few others.
IIRC, the last Art Car was a Le Mans Prototype but IMHO the design (Al foils with writing on 'em) pales in comparison to the other art cars.

The art cars aren't even on exhibit at the BMW Museum in Munich, at least on a regular basis when I was there a few years back. I don't think there's a real value on them, esp since a few of the artists are no longer around.

 

Yes the 15th Art Car, the BMW V12 LMR was done by Jenny Holzer. She put some of her famous Truisms on the car.

She is definitely one of my favorite contemporary artists.

 

Another fchatter and I are making a replica of the Calder Art car starting next month just not that paint scheme