GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO / MOTION / AUTOS, ART, ARCHITECTURE

MOTION. AUTOS, ART, ARCHITECTURE vom 8.April 2022 bis 18.September 2022. Kuratiert von Sir Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank. Die Ausstellung fokussiert die künstlerische Dimension des Automobils und stellt Parallelen zu den Welten der Malerei, Bildhauerei, Architektur, Fotografie und Film her. Für den Begleittext fiel die Entscheidung, einen Auszug aus dem Text des Guggenheim Museum zu wählen. Darin sind Intention und Wesen dieser besonderen Ausstellung komprimiert beschrieben. Als Ergänzung der Link zu Guggenheim MOTION. AUTOS, ART, ARCHITECTURE.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, sponsored by Iberdrola and Volkswagen Group. The exhibition celebrates the artistic dimension of the automobile and links it to the parallel worlds of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and film. Taking a holistic approach, the exhibition challenges the separate silos of these disciplines and explores how they are visually and culturally linked. The exhibition considers the affinities between technology and art, showing for example how 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 around 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, and as such, are being presented to a wider audience for the first time. The exhibition is spread over ten spaces in the museum. Each of seven galleries is themed in a roughly chronological order. These start with Beginnings and continue as Sculptures , Popularising, Sporting, Visionaries and Americana and close with a gallery dedicated to what the future of mobility may hold.

 

Visuals provided by Guggenheim Museum Bilbao / englischer Text Guggenheim Museum Bilbao