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The second part of
Trilogy of the Automobile is underway in
Turin, an exhibition that has a unique
perspective on one of the most crucial and
significant aspects in the history of
design: the design, engineering, and
manufacture of the automobile. |
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Due to the remodeling of its original
building in Corso Unità d’Italia, the Italian National
Automobile Museum “Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia” has moved
to the historical Torino Esposizioni, and begun its time
there with a spectacular exhibition called: Trilogy
of the Automobile - a cultural event dedicated to
the history and evolution of the automobile, in the form
of three separate exhibitions entitled, “The 20th
Century”, “Speed”, and “Dream”, which started in
November 2007 and run until December 2008.
Trilogy of the Automobile is an extraordinary event
which enriches the city, coming poignantly in the year that
it celebrates Torino
2008 World Design Capital, with a unique perspective on one
of the most crucial and significant aspects in the history
of design: the design, engineering, and manufacture of the
automobile.
The temporary closure of the National Automobile Museum for
remodeling makes the museum’s entire collection available,
and it is one of the world’s most prestigious car
collections. The most significant cars, selected from over
170 in the collection, with the addition of some incredible
cars that have never been seen before, kindly loaned by
private collectors and industrial manufacturers, make up
core of the three new exhibition features.
The three exhibitions in the 'Trilogy'
series start from three
different viewpoints, including firstly the history of the
century just concluded; now running, the appeal of speed,
and finally to wrap up with the
evolution of concept cars, to demonstrate how much the car
and its history reveal of our recent past, our present and
what we can expect in the future.
This second exhibition entitled “Speed” is now taking centre
stage, tracing the history of the continuous search for
speed, the unattainable goal. You can admire Grand Prix, F1,
track, record and rally cars, of the past and the present,
which have been raced on the world’s most renowned
racetracks.
Evocative original photos allow visitors to
relive great competitions such as Mille Miglia, Targa
Florio, Grand Prix races from Italy, Great Britain, France
and Germany, and many others. An exciting exhibition aimed
not only at car fanatics, but since speed is such a popular
theme of our contemporary world, it fascinates and involves
everyone, adults and children, specialists and non
specialists. Speed is a challenge to our imagination, it is
competition, it is progress, but it can also mean life and
death, victory and defeat, it is risk, courage, blind
stupidity but also intelligent calculation. Because "a race
car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace
sculpture”.
Trilogy of
the Automobile 2, Speed -
Torino
Esposizioni - Exhibit List
Photos: Roland
Ellison
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