Andy Warhol: Cars / Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection

by: Gayle Anderson, Reporter & Producer, Photographer, Editor, & Co-Producer Bob Keet , Pablo Chacon

Posted: Jul 26, 2022 / 08:54 AM PDT

Updated: Jul 28, 2022 / 05:53 AM PDT

Gayle Anderson is mastering about Andy Warhol’s “Cars” series on exhibit for the very first time in North The us in a lot more than 30 many years at the Petersen Automotive Museum.

The show options 27 display screen prints on canvas and 13 drawings from Warhol’s renowned “Cars” sequence. The world-popular collection functions 8 Mercedes-Benz products showcasing the heritage of cars. Aside from the functions, some of the automobiles portrayed by Warhol are shown, which includes the Mercedes-Benz Components 1 racing auto W 196 R with streamlined entire body, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” Coupe (W 198) and the Mercedes-Benz 750-kilogram system racing vehicle W 125.

In a statement, Mercedes-Benz Artwork Selection Head Renate Wiehager said, “Since the very acclaimed presentation at the Guggenheim Museum New York in 1988, Andy Warhol’s “Cars” series has been a guest in major museums about the environment. We are quite happy that right after much more than 30 yrs, it will now be noticed once again extensively in the US. The identify Warhol has a ‘mythical’ attraction in the context of art, as the customer figures to his exhibitions clearly show. This is also accurate of the manufacturer title Mercedes-Benz in its context, which – materialized in the image of the star – has a secure area of connotations: lovely, rapid, modern day, high-class, top quality.”

The Vehicles sequence is one particular of the final artwork collections created by Warhol ahead of he died in 1987. Warhol developed the sequence for the 100th anniversary of the then Daimler-Benz AG. To begin with, 80 images of 20 automobile products from eight unique many years ended up meant to be created but only 36 prints on canvas and 13 drawings have been accomplished. To date, 30 display prints and all 13 drawings are section of the Mercedes-Benz Artwork Selection. The works can be witnessed at different Mercedes-Benz sites and can be accessed by personnel and the general public as a result of registered guided excursions.

Andy Warhol: Cars
Works from the Mercedes-Benz Artwork Assortment

Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-930-2277

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Gayle Anderson stories for the KTLA 5 Information on July 25, 2022.