Techno Classica Essen March 26 - 30 2008.

VIP, Preview day March 26.

20th TECHNO-CLASSICA ESSEN from 26 to 30 March 2008:
The Classic Fair of the Superlatives

International Gallery of Automotive Art

About 25 renowned international gallery owners and artists are offering different views of the automobile - as an original or as art reprint. They establish the TECHNO-CLASSICA as the largest German automobile art gallery.

Artwork of well-known artists like Walter Gotschke, Nicolas Watts, Carlo Demand, Graham Turner or Alan Fearnley are offered at this classic art market just as pictures of young and less established artists.

The automobile not only has written history, but also history of art. Starting with futurism, expressionism and surrealism to pop art and happening up to postmodernism it bears importance and meaning not just as an object of technology but also and most of all as mythological object. Many artists have understood and still understand it as a challenge to catch movement and mobility.

At the TECHNO CLASSICA visitors are able to experience the whole bandwidth of the automobile in art. Next to the two-dimensional works of art there also is a wide range of sculptures. Whether caricatures or poster and advertising design, paintings in oil or watercolours, historic works or contemporary art, all works of art have one thing in common: they are images of a desire.