The digital series of BMW Art Cars finally welcomes Barbara Kruger. Quite ironic, considering that, in the vernacular, the BMW acronym is often explained as “Bring Me Women”, “Brings Me Women”, “Beer, Motorcycles, Women”, and “Beats Most Women”. Of the seventeen artists that participated in the BMW Art Cars initiative, only two are women: Esther Mahlangu (Zaire, 1991) and Jenny Holtzer (United States, 1999). After all, cars are boys toys, embodiments of male fantasies of power, control, and domination. "It should not come as surprise that women are blatantly underrepresented in the BMW Art Cars initiative. The eight automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 1988 BMW M5, was appropriated by Barbara Kruger's avatars Previously: FRAMING GAYS IN THE MILITARY, DISCIPLESĬoll.eo, CARJACKED (After Barbara Kruger), machinima, playable car, 2012 The video of Cattelan's BMW Art Car is available here.
I thought about covering this expensive, exclusive ebony German car with the tackiest bumper stickers I could find.”\" (Coll.eo)Īdditional details about Cattelan's BMW Art Car can be found here. The car was a complete wreck, an old Subaru.The stickers were covering scratches and damages. I was stuck in traffic and the car in front of me had two or three political bumper stickers. “I found myself in a cul-de-sac,“ Cattelan admits. Plus, I already had an ‘invisible’ artwork stolen from my car before, and doing another project on invisibility would have been an overkill” concludes the Italian artist. “But then I realized it was not such an original idea. “Originally, I wanted to create an invisible car,” Cattelan explains. The artwork was subsequently expanded for the 2011 edition of the Biennale and rebranded as “The Others”. It is playful reminder of Cattelan’s “Tourists” installation for the 1997 Venice Biennale, when he installed thousands of stuffed birds in the central pavillion. "For this project, Cattelan appropriated a 2011 BMW XM6 and covered its otherwise otherwise pristine roof top with pigeons’ excrements. The ninth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 2011 BMW X6, was appropriated by Maurizio Cattelan's assistants:
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