Game Art: coll.eo's "CARJACKED (After Banksy)" (2012)
The sixth automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 1972 BMW 2002, was developed by Bansky's avatar:
"Banksy loves cars. Or perhaps not. In 2004, the British graffiti-artist painted an abandoned automobile in a Somerset quarry near the village of Chanty with zebra-like stripes. The broken vehicle has been subsequently vandalized and destroyed. In 2005, an old Triumph GT6 materialized in a parking lot near Brick Lane, London. Banksy painted it pink and added the image of a ghost driver at the wheel. Today, the elusive British artist is introducing the “Baader Meinhof Wagen”, an appropriated 1972 BMW 2002 Ti.
Banksy's car features a bumper sticker, the infamous Ich gehöre nicht zur Baader-Meinhof Gruppe sign (“I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof Group”). This disclaimer - which adorned the windows and rears of many BMWs - reflected the tenor of West Germany in the early 1970s. Ironically, according to Huffman, BMW benefitted “immensely from the new connection to the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Among younger Germans, BMW cars became suddenly hip, trendy, and cool. " (Coll.eo)
Additional details about Banksy''s BMW Art Car can be found here.
The video of Banksy's BMW Art Car is available here.
LINK: Coll.eo
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Submitted by Matteo Bittanti