BMW commissions two M6 GT3 art cars

BMW has announced it’s commissioned two renowned artists to create liveries for a pair of M6 GT3 race cars that will compete in 2017.

The artists China’s, Cao Fei, and John Baldessari from the US were chosen by a 12-strong jury made up of museum directors from all over the world.

Fei was chosen and described by the jury as one of the most promising and boldest Chinese artists of her generation. Baldessari, meanwhile, was given the gig after the same panel described the Californian-based artist as a “serial inventor” and a “great pioneer and godfather of an entire art scene in LA and beyond”.

The art car phenomenon began when French BMW-works race car driver and art fan, Hervé Poulain, 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.