| -Akshay- |
08-28-2007 02:18 PM |
BMW Art Cars, Display In India
International BMW website
http://www.bmw.in/in/en/index_narrowband.html
Quote:
BMW is proud to bring the BMW Art Cars to India. Since 1975, prominent artists have embellished a BMW with their artistic vision. Each is a vivid expression painted on a most inspiring canvas and a colourful testimony to our belief that ideas are everything. The BMW Art Car Collection combines world-renowned art with world-class automobiles. Travelling from their origin in Germany, the BMW Art Cars are priceless masterpieces that reflect the cultural and historical development of art, design and technology. Join us for this fabulous celebration that puts India – a burgeoning art market at the forefront.
The BMW Art Car program was conceived in 1975, the year that French auctioneer and racecar driver Herve Poulain first entered Le Mans. Searching for a link between art and motorcycles, Poulain asked his friend Alexander Calder to commission a rolling canvas on the BMW 3.0 CSL that he would race. In the years that followed, this unique combination of motorsport and BMW design fascinated the famous artists of our time. Since the series' inception in 1975, fifteen memorable racecars have been painted by brilliant art masters such as Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jenny Holzer and David Hockney (all have since been displayed in museums from the Guggenheim in Bilbao to the Louvre in Paris.) Together, the art cars form a mirror of contemporary culture, as exemplary as it is unique.
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so if you are in India at those days, you might get lucky :) |
