CALDER BMW ART CAR (ARTIST’S PROOF)

 CALDER BMW ART CAR (ARTIST'S PROOF)

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The Norton Museum of Art has announced that it will be launching a special guest: Calder BMW Art Car. The exhibition will highlight the Calder BMW Art Car (Proof of Art, 1975/2021) by American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) as part of a temporary series of Norton “Special Guest” exhibitions featuring a remarkable loan at the center.

Viewed until April 24, 2022, the piece will be stamped on Gilbert and Ann Maurer Lobby next to Calder's tapestry and film craft.

“Our series of‘ Special Visitor ’exhibitions in Norton offers visitors the opportunity to see unusual works of art that are often inaccessible to the public,” said Ghislain d’Humières, Director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art. “The Calder BMW art car (Proof of Art) is the same — as this installation shows that the work of art began to emerge in the United States at the site.”

In 1974, French dealer and race car driver Hervé Poulain commissioned Calder to paint a BMW race car. A year later, a great partnership was achieved. Calder has designed flexible forms with bright colors on car wings, a bonnet, and a roof reminiscent of the artist's famous cell phones, but also his two-dimensional works. Named after the Calder Foundation's BMW Group Classic, Evidence of Art fulfills Calder's dream of making his own original BMW Art Car, which serves as his intended kinetic artwork.

Calder's BMW Art Car ran for the first time and was the only one at 24 Heures du Mans on June 14, 1975. One of the last works of art created before the artist's death, the project was an important partnership that inspired the entire Art Car system in BMW. -a venerable, elaborate cross and world of art. After Calder's Art Car competed in Le Mans, it was exhibited at an artist's exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1976, where it housed a prominent museum exhibition at the blockbuster exhibition.

Alexander SC Rower, president of the Calder Foundation and grandson of the artist, said, “I first met the BMW Art Car when I was a child at the opening of my grandfather's historical museum at the Whitney Museum in 1976. the roar of its M49 engine, he then smiled and told me he wanted to make it his own. He died a few weeks later. From then on, I wanted to live up to his dream of making a car enjoyable. ”

Articles of Art 2021 are named by the BMW Group Classic of the Calder Foundation not as a metaphor, but as incomplete, the same proof of the artist Calder was originally entitled to. Carefully developed from the original BMW 3.0 CSL, Art Proof with the same car identification number, with the appendix “AP” (227592 / AP). To create it, the two organizations negotiated key members of the original project, including Poulain and Walter Maurer, who completed the 1975 Calder BMW Art Car technology and the 2021 Art Proof.

Poulain recalls: “It was an exciting time as a young driver to meet the great American artist Alexander Calder at his home in Saché. The race that was the first of its kind in the world of prestigious luxury cars is a memorable one that I will never forget. I am happy that so many people are now getting Calder's opinion, thanks to the evidence of this new artist. ”

The inclusion represents the latest duplication of the Norton series "Special Guests", which showcases unique works of art with loans from public and private collections. Other special guest views currently include Special Guest: Water Lily Pond (Clouds), co-hosted by Claude Monet's The Water Lily Pond (Clouds) in the Dallas Museum of Art collection and Special Guest: Beaching the Boat (Afternoon Light) Art Gallery . by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, from the Hispanic Society of America in New York. Both paintings began in 1903.