# @bmwgroupculture on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CjqOEVvMhNL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17538765-bmwgroupculture-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-10-13T15:55:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BMW Group Culture (@bmwgroupculture) — https://gondola.cc/bmwgroupculture

## Caption

A look into #BMWOpenWork Artist Nikita Gale’s installation “63/22” at Frieze London 2022. Sketched by BMW i7 Designers, the guitars are named after significant Black female musicians associated with the histories of blues and rock and roll. Tharpe is a completely metallic guitar with a square headstock, long neck and geometric edges. The sound comes through a laser-cut grid, the same found in the All-Electric BMW i7 interior side, the Steel Speaker Grill.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, often referred to as the “Godmother of Rock and Roll,” was born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas and not even two decades later she was already brewing up on her guitar the foundations of what would soon be the newest international music sensation: rock ‘n’ roll. It was Tharpe, a Black, openly queer woman, who created and shaped the earliest days of rock with her rawness, talent, and grit.

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