Over the weekend, Sotheby’s auctioned off the half dozen artist-styled road bikes Lance Armstrong has been racing this year. Part of an awareness effort for the STAGES art show now on view at Deitch Projects, the Trek bike sale brought in more than $1.2 million for the cyclist’s cancer-fighting efforts. Read more »
With the Tour de France underway, Trek offers an overview of Lance Armstrong’s sextuplet of artist customized bicycles. Along with more detailed views of the rolling canvases by KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf, Marc Newson, comes a closer look at the most recent bikes stylized by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara and shark cutter Damien Hirst. Read more »
While we hoped Damien Hirst was crafting Lance Armstrong a racing bicycle adorned with actual dead sharks and lambs, the animal cutting artist took a slightly more animal-sensitive approach, styling the bike with a butterfly wing motif reminiscent of the stained glass window designs he once crafted from the insects’ wings. Here’s a sneak peek at the Trek Madone that Armstrong will race later this month in the Tour de France, after which it goes to auction for the pro cyclist’s anti-cancer charity, along with rides customized by KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf, Marc Newson, and NARA.
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Over the weekend, tastemaking cyclist Lance Armstrong twittered photos of his new bike, a Trek Madone styled by legally embattled artist Shepard Fairey. Armstrong will ride the frame in the upcoming Giro d’Italia, which begins this Saturday in Venice. Click the images above for details of Fairey’s paint job that we assume is original.
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