BMW Z1 beschilderd door PENCK, schaal 1/18

A.R. PENCK (1939 – 2017), “Art Car A.R.Penck BMW Z1 1991”
miniatuurauto op schaal 1/18 (6,7 x 21 x 10 cm) in kijkkastje (Limited Museum Edition, maart 2003), een met de hand gesigneerde kaart (20 x 20 cm) en een gesigneerde catalogus.
The BMW Art Car Collection
Since 1975, a total of 19 international artists have been creating BMW Art Cars on the basis of contemporary BMW automobiles. The collection was inaugurated when French race car driver and art aficionado Hervé Poulain in collaboration with the then current BMW Motorsport Director Jochen Neerpasch asked his artist friend Alexander Calder to design a car.
The result was a BMW 3.0 CSL, which in 1975 was raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and became an instant favorite with the spectators: the BMW Art Car Collection was born. BMW Art Cars are not only on display in their home, BMW’s museum in Munich, they also travel internationally to exhibitions and museums in Asia, Europe and North America.

In November 2015, BMW Group announced two artists to create the next BMW Art Cars at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In addition to American artist John Baldessari, multimedia artist Cao Fei, one of China’s most important contemporary artists who just received the CAA Artist of the Year award and had a solo show at MoMA PS1 in 2016, has also designed a vehicle for this legendary collection, a 2017 BMW M6 GT3.