Game Art: Coll.eo's "CARJACKED (After Gerhard Richter)" (2012)
The seventh automobile in the ongoing CARJACKED project, a 2010 BMW M6, was developed by Gerhard Richter's assistants.
"Gerhard Richter’s BMW Art Car is modeled after his latest opus, Strip (2011), a series of unique digital prints mounted under Perspex. To create images for this encyclopedic project - which was complemented by a 500+ page limited edition book - the German artist took one of his 1990 abstract paintings and digitally dissected it. First he cut it into two separate strips, mirrored them and repeated them across the length of the page to produce two waves of abstraction. Then he cut the painting into four strips and followed the same process, repeating each mirrored strip so that each of the four final resulting images are the same length.
Next came divisions of eight, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048 and 4,096. Works from that last division are simply straight horizontal lines of color, each one generated by minuscule cuts of the painting. With each stage of division, the strips become progressively thinner (a strip of the 12th division is 0.08 mm). This process (twelve stages of division) results in 8190 strips, each of which is the height of the original image.
But Richter did not stop here. He then took a 2010 BMW M6 Coupe A509 and painted 221 strips from this series. His seductive, bright car is both simple and incredibly intricate. He successfully merged the analog with the digital." (Coll.eo)
Additional details about Richter''s BMW Art Car can be found here.
The video of Richter's BMW Art Car is available here.
LINK: Coll.eo
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Submitted by Matteo Bittanti