Latest BMW art car

[A Y]

BMW's just announced its latest art car, and it's ... different:

It will be on display in San Francisco's MOMA from September through January in specially-cooled room so it doesn't melt.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/16/b...dern-art-on-u/

--Andre

 

[imageWIS]

WTF?

Jon.

 

[whacked]

Originally Posted by a blog commenter

This answers the age old question:

Just how much LSD and Marijuana does it take to get "that" high.

Of course, only Olafur Eliasson has the answer.

^^ Too funny.

 

[NYC EXCLUSIVE SHOP]

Lost in this thread does any1 else feel like that?

 

[Renault78law]

The car was then been sprayed with 530 gallons of water over the course of several days to create layers of ice. Do you get it? Water --> H2O --> Hydrogen. Clever.

eh?

 

[Willsw]

Reading up on the other art cars, I must say that this one goes right along with the others. My favorites are Sandro Chia (he painted faces so that the car would "look back" at people looking at it, ingenius) and Ernst Fuchs (He calls his "firefox on harehunt" and has a wonderful explanation of the...work), with an honorable mention to A. R. Penck's you-thought-it-was-just-this-but-surprise-it's-art explanation needing car and also Hockney's inspired use of green.

I wonder how on earth he thought to equate water with hydrogen? This is why we have artists.

 

[TheIdler]

Read the blog--a BMW had to die to make this. From the artist: "Our movement in space implies friction: not only wind resistance, but also social, physical, and political frictions." Uh-huh, yeah. Really, the only thing I hate more than bad modern art is the self-aggrandizing bull that bad modern artists seem to spew.

 

[sonick]

List of past BMW art cars: http://www.bmwworld.com/artcars/ I must say, maybe I'm a philistine, but some of them look like they belong in the backyard of a redneck with cans of spray-paint (e.g. Penck's Z1).

 

[Willsw]

Originally Posted by sonick

(e.g. Penck's Z1).

What, didn't you catch his "challenge"? Could you not read the cipher? What's wrong with you?

 

[GQgeek]

As if I needed another reason to dislike modern art.

 

[Willsw]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

As if I needed another reason to dislike modern art.

Please, "contemporary". Even those defenders of high art must admit that most of these bimmers are bad art, equivalent perhaps to an Absolut ad.

 

[Artisan Fan]

This makes the "Bangle Butt" look positively genius.

 

[LSeca]

Andy Warhol's BMW M1 wasn't bad, but the '76 3.0 CSL by Frank Stella was the best imo.

 

[dastig]

i love the batmobile.

 

[rdawson808]

I'll give my vote to the Calder and the Chia. Both look wonderful.

Never been a Stella fan.

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