Jeff Koons for BMW…
Though his design for his BMW art car emphasizes streaks of saturated hues, the artist Jeff Koons said his multicolored effort was in part inspired by a desire for a checkered flag. “I think that would be really fantastic to work on a car that could win,” Mr. Koons said Monday evening in a telephone interview. “I do hope that in the future, we can look back and this car wins.”
There may or may not be a victory lap in the future for Mr. Koons’s car, whose design, above, will be officially unveiled on Tuesday morning and which will adorn a BMW M3 GT2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in Paris this June. But his automotive artwork continues a 35-year-old tradition at BMW, which has previously commissioned Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg to turn its cars into canvases, and, at the same time, offers a window into Mr. Koons’s past. (via)
