Designed and engineered in collaboration with the Italian race car manufacturer Dallara, it’s low and wide with an enormous rear wing and a large vertical rudder.
For the commission, which marks the 20th BMW Art Car, Mehretu chose to adapt one of her most famous works: The painting “Everywhen,” which is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The first woman to take on a BMW Art Car was South African artist Esther Mahlangu, who in 1991 painted a 525i sedan.
In 1996, Holzer covered a BMW Le Mans race car in the words “Protect Me From What I Want,” among other provocative phrases.
Esther Mahlangu's 'Art Car' featured the bold colors and geometric patterns used in the traditional arts and crafts of the Southern Ndebele people.
Persons:
Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu, Mehretu, ” Mehretu, André, Alexander Calder, Hervé Poulain, Poulain, Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Warhol, Esther Mahlangu, Holzer, Esther Mahlangu's, Enes, Goldman Sachs, “, Marian Goodman, I've, ” Julian Kroehl, BMW Mehretu, Madeleine Grynsztejn, ”, Julie, ” Grynsztejn
Organizations:
CNN, BMW, Pompidou Center, Le, Dallara, Museum of Modern Art, BMW “, CSL, BMW Le, Daytona, Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, MacArthur, US Department of State, of, Pritzker, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Locations:
Ethiopian American, Paris, New York City, American, African, Southern, Manhattan, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, United States, New York