C/ART. The art of playing with automobiles

The exhibition - created by contemporary artist Robert Kuśmirowski - consists of an environmental installation in which the artist, by exhibiting toy cars and small cars from several Italian collections and museums - from the end of the nineteenth century to the nineties of the twentieth century -, creates an unprecedented dialogue between art and automotive historical memory.

The visitor is welcomed into a deliberately eccentric and messy environment: an excess of incomplete models, worn-out tools and almost forgotten machinery. Old metal nets replace the traditional shelving, evoking the atmosphere of a chaotic workshop of a bizarre collector.

The path gradually develops towards the idea of perfect exposure: the objects find order, meaning, and celebrate the transition from childhood to a mature and conscious form of collecting.

In this transformation, we are immersed in a reflection on the memory and meaning of the car as an object of worship. From a passionate and compulsive accumulation typical of childhood to an orderly systematization of the collected pieces: the exhibition explores the evolution of the collectors and the emotional value of the specimens they research with dedication.

Robert Kuśmirowski was born in 1973 in Łódź, Poland. His solo exhibitions have traveled the world, from the Barbican Center in London to the Kunsthalle in Vienna, from the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to the New Museum in New York.