Scheibitz considers the surfaces and
colour schemes of his sculptures as vitally
important, even though industrial design
represents a major antagonist and a
source of inspiration alike. Understanding
sports cars as designed sculptures and
dynamic results of a synthesis of technology
and creativity, the artist, bored with the
traditional canvas, borrowed his friend Bernd
Heusinger’s BMW i8 and made it over in
his signature colourful style, transforming
the car into his latest sculpture Scheibitz x
Haysinger.
Commenting on his experimental automobile
art piece, Scheibitz said, “Radical content
is a question of form. Traditional sculptural
concerns such as visual perspectives, detailed
imagery, spatial perspectives, qualities of reliefs,
symmetry as well as dissolved symmetry and
illusion were the starting points for my design of
a body of a modern vehicle.”
For Scheibitz, who is known for creating
new associations by playing with various
references in his brightly coloured works,
the automobile sculpture was a chance
to take the themes from his 2017 small-
scale paintings and translate them into the
industrial and futuristic context of the BMW
hybrid sports car, with scanned and enlarged
fragments obvious to the eye on the surface
of the BMW i8. He developed the idea even
further by creating a visual dialogue between
the innovative carbon structure of the vehicle
and the texture of traditional canvas.
Not the first time he has taken the keys
to his friend Heusinger’s car, Scheibitz has
been focussing on the design of the hybrid
sports car for a number of years. In 2016, he
created “Holy Motors”, a tubular sculpture
painted in multicoloured vinyl paints
exhibited in the rear window of the same
BMW i8.