Andy Warhol. CARS

A Co-operation of the Museum Art & Cars, Singen with the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin and Mercedes-Benz Classic, Stuttgart

October 26th 2014 — September 20th 2015

MAC – Museum Art & Cars, Singen
Parkstraße 1
D – 78224 Singen

With his 1986/87 Cars series Andy Warhol holds an outstanding position in the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection. This was his last series of pictures, commissioned by the company on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the motor car, but  ever completed. 80 pictures were planned, intended to record the history of the motor car from the Daimler Motor Coach and the Benz Patent Motor Car dating from 1886 to the present day, using 20 selected Mercedes types. Only 36 pictures and 13 largeformat drawings representing eight different models were finished. As the artist put the brand Mercedes-Benz in the context of art, in the context of the “Warhol aura” he managed to bring together two high-class products. The name Warhol has a “mythic” attraction within the context of arts, as the attendances of his exhibitions are showing; just as the brand Mercedes-Benz in its context, which has—symbolized by the star—a constant field of connotations in the consumer  society of the 20th century: beautiful, fast, modern, high-quality. In the Museum Art & Cars Singen works from the Warhol Cars series will for the first time be exhibited in dialogue with historic Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

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Publications

  • Cars

    Cars

    Andy Warhol, Sylvie Fleury, Robert Longo, Vincent Szarek from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection

    Renate Wiehager for the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Hatje Cantz Ostfildern, 2010
  • Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol

    Cars. Die letzten Bilder 1986/87

    Götz Adriani for Kunsthalle Tübingen, Gerd Hatje Stuttgart, 1990
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  • Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol

    Cars. Die letzten Bilder 1986/87

    Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei Ostfildern, 1996
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Exhibitions

    Mercedes-Benz Museum

    Art & Stars & Cars

    On the Occasion of the Automobile's 125th Anniversary
    May 10th — September 25th 2011
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