Realized in collaboration with Autostrade per l’Italia on the occasion of the centenary of the construction of Italy’s first motorway in 1924, the exhibition project set up in MAXXI’s Gallery 3 retraces the salient moments of Italy’s motorway network since its birth and reveals how motorways have molded the landscape, society and imagination of an entire country, interweaving modernity and memory, connecting places, people and stories.
Panoramic images captured during photographic helicopter flights specially commissioned for the exhibition, historical projects or projects in progress, archive drawings, vintage or author’s photographs, tourist maps and evolving maps accompany us on a spectacular space-time journey, made up of the history of motorways but also its recurring places and themes. The protagonist of the exhibition is also auteur architecture, from Giovanni Michelucci to Jean Nouvel, from Santiago Calatrava to Guido Canali of Canali Associati: wineries, bridges and railway stations, company headquarters, production campuses designed and realised by great names in architecture, visible both from inside the motorway and from those who are just near it, much more than a simple dynamic scenography.
Iwan Baan’s photographic visions capture the essence of the motorway landscape from above, thanks to a series of helicopter fights. Technology and environmental awareness will be the main features of tomorrow’s motorways, here recounted by the concrete green proposals signed by Renzo Piano’s studio (RPBW) and the dreamlike visions of Emiliano Ponzi. The exhibition is not only a celebration of ingenuity, but also a tribute to travel as a metaphor for life: a bridge between past and future, between distant places and the stories that inhabit them, between everyday life and tomorrow.
Header: A23 Palmanova - Tarvisio, Ponte fiume Tagliamento II, 2024. Ph. Iwan Baan. Courtesy Autostrade per l’Italia
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