Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture
04.08.2022 - 09.18.2022
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Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture celebrates the artistic dimension of the automobile and links it to the parallel worlds of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography and film. In this holistic approach, the exhibition challenges the separate silos of these disciplines and explores how they are visually and culturally linked together.
The exhibition considers the affinities between technology and art, showing for example how the use of the wind tunnel helped to aerodynamically shape the automobile to go faster with more economic use of power. This streamlining revolution was echoed in works of the Futurist movement and by other artists of the period. It was also reflected in the industrial design of everything, from household appliances to locomotives.
The exhibition brings together nearly forty automobiles—each the best of its kind in such terms as beauty, rarity, technical progress and a vision of the future. These are placed centre stage in the galleries and surrounded by significant works of art and architecture. Many of these have never before left their homes in private collections and public institutions, so they are being opened up to a wider audience for the first time. Unlike any other single invention, the automobile has completely transformed the urban and rural landscape of our planet and in turn our lifestyle. We are on the edge of a new revolution of electric power, so this exhibition could be seen as a requiem for the last days of combustion.
Curated by Norman Foster; Lekha Hileman Waitoller, Manuel Cirauqui, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Giotto Bizzarrini
Ferrari 250 GTO, 1962
Ten Tenths
© Ben de Chair
Virtual Tour
The Exhibition
Andy Warhol
Benz Patent Motor Car (1886), 1986
Silkscreen, acrylic on canvas
153 x 128 cm
Acquired 1986
Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart / Berlin
© 2022, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./VEGAP
Photograph: Uwe Seyl, Stuttgart
Constantin Brancusi
Fish (Le Poisson), 1926
Polished bronze
13.5 x 42 cm
Edition 3 of 8
Courtesy Kasmin Gallery
© Succession Brancusi - All rights reserved, VEGAP, 2022
Alexander Calder
January 31 (31 Janvier), 1950
Aluminium sheet and painted steel wire
385 x 575 cm
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre de creation
industrielle, Paris, Francia. Purchased by the State, 1950. Attributed 1959
© 2022 Calder Foundation, New York / VEGAP, Madrid
Jean Bugatti
Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, 1936
Merle & Peter Mullin, Melani & Rob Walton and the Mullin
Automotive Museum Foundation
© Photograph by Michael Furman
Ron Herron (Archigram)
Free Time Node - Trailer Cage, 1967
Ink drawing and collage on board with letrafilm
40 x 54.5 cm
On loan from the Ron Herron Archive
© Ron Herron Archive
© VEGAP, Bilbao, 2022
Bridget Riley
Ch'i-Yün, 1974
Acrylic on linen
210.5 x 211.5 x 5.7 cm
Collection Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Gift of
Rose M. Shuey, from the Collection of Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey.
© Bridget Riley, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2022
Photo: © Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Educational Community
Pininfarina
Ferrari 250MM Berlinetta Carrera Panamericana, 1953
Ten Tenths
David Hockney
Steering Wheel #3, October 1982, 1982
Photo collage
56 × 72 cm
Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart / Berlin
© David Hockney
Photo: Andreas Freytag, Stuttgart
Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,
(Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio), 1913, (cast 1972)
Bronze
117,5 x 87,6 x 36,8 cm
Tate, purchased 1972
© Tate
Ezra Stoller
General Motors Technical Center, 1949
Photograph
© General Motors
Edward Ruscha
Standard Station, 1966
7‑color screenprint
65 x 101.6 cm
Artist proof
Courtesy of the artist
© Ed Ruscha
Ford Pierson Brothers Coupe, 1934
Bruce Meyer Collection, United States
Photo: © Ted7
University of Cape Town, South Africa
U+, US+
Mentors
Prof. Edgar Pieterse, Dr. Philippa Tumubweinee
Team Members
Heeten Bhagat, Emma Bracher, Brendon Clack, Tankiso Hantsi, Divine Masako, Dineo Mogotsi, Paul Richardson, Martin Wilson, Daniel Xu
Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden
Speculative Mobility
Mentors
Demian Horst, Jonas Sandström
Team Members
Wanyi Du, Max Troicher, Lars Welten, David Wolter
Partners
Geely Auto, China
BMW AG, Germany
GM Photographic
Images of the Clay Modelling Process of Different Historic
Designs, 1933–87
Photographs
Cadillac
GM Photographic
Images of the Clay Modelling Process of Different Historic
Designs, 1933–87
Photographs
Cadillac
Did you
know that...?
Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture
As part of the DIDAKTIKA project in the onsite educational space you will hear the sound experience of ten car engines from the exhibition Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture and in this online space, you will discover some facts about those cars.
Benz Patent Motor Car, 1886
Did you know that the first journey between two cities in a car propelled by an internal combustion engine was driven by a woman?
Ford Model T, 1914
Did you know that the Ford Model T was the first mass-produced car?
Bugatti Type 35, 1924
Did you know that the Bugatti Type 35 was one of the most successful racing cars of all time, winning over 2,000 races?
Ford Pierson Brothers Coupé, 1934
Did you know that the Fords were amongst the most popular cars to turn into Hot Rods during the 1940s?
Tatra T87, 1948
Did you know that the TATRA T87 was very popular amongst Nazi officials?
Fiat Nuova 500, 1957
Did you know that the compact design of the Fiat Nuova 500 responded to the shortage of steel and petrol during the post war years?
Ferrari GTO 250, 1962
Do you know why red is a characteristic feature of Ferraris?
Jaguar E-Type, 1963
Did you know that the Jaguar E-Type was designed from mathematical formulae derived from the field of aeronautics?
Lancia Stratos Zero, 1970
Did you know that the Lancia Stratos Zero has no doors?
