Jeff Koons paint artmobil BMW "for life" - in the strip
07/04/201003: 10
NEW YORK, April 7 - RIA Novosti, Larissa Saenko. One of the most expensive and controversial artists of the world, Jeff Koons, on Tuesday introduced the press his design for a sports BMW's famous art collection of the corporation, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
The sketch is made in the form of collage, which consists of colored bands, a lot of bright colors, producing the impression of high speed and powerful energy.
"Car Racing, like life, they have a lot of force and energy. That's what I wanted to pass, thinking design," - said Koons told reporters.
In his designs, a striped car symbolizes "tunnel of light energy. In this work, the artist's shocking missing part of his creative style phallic symbols. And he himself in a classic suit look like a representative of the business elites, rather than bohemian.
The collection of BMW, consisting of 16 cars, a sports model who painted such renowned artists as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder. Last year, BMW has expanded its collection of works by famous mobile Robin Rhoda, known for its "street art".
"We have traditionally been invited to paint artmobili those artists whom we recommend the advice of the most famous museums in the world of contemporary art, and, in particular, the MOMA in New York. Kuhns was the only exception, as proposed to himself," - said Thomas Girst, representative of the BMW Group for cultural projects.
Works conceptual Koons - the quintessence of American popular culture. A successful artist, he had begun at the Museum of Modern Art petty clerk, took the baton from the "father of Pop Art, Warhol, and raised the aesthetics of everyday life in the gigantic scale of his sculptures. Glory he added a short-term marriage with an Italian porn star and politician Cicciolina, as well as erotic focus of the mapping of the world.
"You would say" no "if you came with the proposal itself, Jeff Koons? Naturally, we said" YES, YES, YES "from completely capitalized," - said Girst.
In 2007, the work Koons "Hanging Heart" was sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York for 24 million dollars, raising the sculptor, whom critics have called the "king of kitsch", on top of the price of modern art market.
Premiere painted BMW M3, which is still shining snow-white body, will be held June 1 in Paris, after which artmobil take part in the famous race 24 Hours of Le Mans, which are tested not only on speed but endurance.
"I wanted to describe this car as the embodiment of vital energy", - said Coons RIA Novosti.
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