In 1975 Herv\u00e9 Poulain, a French auctioneer and art enthusiast with a sideline in auto racing, came up with a novel idea for combining his passions. Poulain planned on competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and wanted to make a splash, whether he made the podium or...
That relationship has grown and Koons and the German auto-giant have now collaborated again on The 8 X Jeff Koons, the first of the Art Car series to go into production.
Only 99 of the Koons-pimped M850i xDrive Gran Coupés – which he describes as ‘sporty and flashy as well as minimalist and conceptual’ – will be produced, at the rate of two a week. TheThe 8 X Jeff Koons made its first physical public appearance outside the Rockefeller Centre in New York earlier this month, a trailer for a Christie’s auction of the last available car from the production run.
Koons is big on family – he has six children with his wife, the artist Justine Wheeler – and the new car is a relatively family-friendly four-seater. ‘I wanted a car I would actually drive,’ says Koons – but the design is closer to his first design for the debut race car. ‘My original idea was the car would go by on the track and suddenly you would see “Pop! Pop! Pop!” And it would be like these energy explosions taking place.
‘I really wanted to return to something a little warm and minimal but with this essence of thrust and energy,’ he says. ‘So I’ve worked with lines starting in the front that are very thin and then get wider as you go back over the surface of the car. You get this sense of aerodynamics and these little popping areas of energy.’
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