Just when you thought Mini Coopers couldn’t get more quirky, surrealist artist (and former senior art director for VH1 Latin America) Aleloop, aka Alejandra Leibovich, art-wrapped some of the small cars in Miami earlier this month. Art-wrapping involves printing a design onto laminated vinyl and then applying it to a car over its existing paint.
The Minis displayed, at Art Basel 2011, featured 10 different themes: Grunge, Video Game, DJ, Mini Me, Fine Arts, Free Hand, Comics, Driver, Pattern and Nature. An additional Mini, called “Graffiti,” let event visitors take a stab at adding their own artistic flair to the car.
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The cavalcade of Coopers traveled together and made pit stops at some of the major artist hangouts during the event. Four performers per Mini rode around in the cars and created a multisensory flash mob of 40 dancers at each stop. Aleloop’s goal in painting the popular BMW vehicles? Creating “happy art that makes people smile.”
If you want to test your luck at winning the chance to borrow one of these “happy” art pieces for a year, enter the contest on the artist’s Facebook page. Winners will be announced New Year’s Day.
Via: CNET
Credit: Aleloop
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