Julie Mehretu will create BMW’s next Art Car

Photo caption: Julie Mehretu at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, 2023. © Julian Kroehl. Article by Benjamin Sutton. The Art Newspaper – June 28, 2023.

The artist, known for her dynamic compositions in two dimensions, will bring that sense of movement to a car with a maximum speed of around 345km per hour

Julie Mehretu, the revered New York-based painter known for her large-scale architectonic compositions, will soon be working with a surface as dynamic as the swirling forms for which she is known: she has been selected to create the next BMW Art Car, the 20th in the German automaker’s series of contemporary art commissions. […]

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