On October 1st, Cao Fei, one of the highlights of the National Day Outdoor Carnival in Sihai City and a Chinese artist who designed BMW's 18th art car in the world, will land in Sihai City with a new art installation specially made from the original elements of the art car.
As the first Chinese artist invited to create a BMW art car after Jeff Koons, the most well-known pop artist in the United States, Cao Fei combines the most cutting-edge digital technology with a pure black BMW M6 GT3 to create a virtual image work that travels through time and space, showing the history of China's urbanization development through the work, while also looking forward to the future digital travel prospects characterized by autonomous driving and artificial intelligence, showing the perfect combination of technological speed and artistic passion.
Cao Fei's works are the perfect combination of the speed of technology and the passion of art.
In addition to bringing this new art installation, on October 2, Cao Fei will also enthusiastically "blow water" with the theme of "Back to the South" with several other guests from the art world, and play a 5-minute art short film "No Man's Land".
Although when it comes to Cao Fei's works, people always think of words such as avant-garde thinking and changeable style, she does not drive, does not have a driver's license, and does not want to drive. How did she create her 18th BMW art car with a distinctive personality?
Cao Fei said she has flipped through several movies about cars. The first is Crash, in 1999, an American female artist Jenny Holzer wrote the declaration in the film on the body: "You are too complicated, you can't deal with danger", and then wrote "Stay away from me" on the roof; the other is "Back to the Future 2", which shows human imagination of the future and the future of the vehicle used. Nowadays, human beings have increasingly realized the fantasy of driverless cars in their works.
These provided Cao Fei with inspiration. Her work captures the interleaved excitement of pop culture, technological innovation, and social change. Therefore, she hopes that the 18th art car will use today's technology to explore the boundary between virtual and reality. And her usual video techniques have become the magic weapon for her to realize her creative concept.
Using VR technology, Cao Fei's team specially developed an APP, when the mobile phone APP is aimed at the black BMW, the audience can see the colorful 18th BMW art car. It presents the artist's thoughts on ideas, technology and the future: When we usher in an era of unmanned operation and artificial intelligence, an era of mind control and idea transfer, what kind of concepts and spirits are the key to opening the future?
On October 2nd, Cao Fei will share the theme with a number of guests from the art world at the Sihai City Art Gallery.
In conjunction with the 18th Art⻋, Cao Fei's team also created a 5-minute short film "No Man's Land", which tells the story of how a Chinese walker went from the countryside to the city, from reality to virtuality, from the past to the future. This film has always been exhibited with art cars, because the theme of the 18th BMW art car is "no man's land" - unmanned driving, drones, unmanned production, artificial intelligence, virtual reality... These have increasingly become the key words in our lives today. At this "water blowing meeting", everyone can watch this shocking film. At the same time, you can also learn about the various things behind artistic creation between Cao Fei and Liu Qingyuan, Yang Shao, Chen Fanmaru, and Li Weibin.