Marcello Gandini. Genio Nascosto is the third chapter in a series of major exhibitions that the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile has dedicated to the most famous and innovative car designers of the 20th century. A project aimed at investigating their personal and professional experiences and the contexts in which the ideas that made them world famous were born and developed.
In the history of world car design, Marcello Gandini was perhaps the most revolutionary. From his pencil came dream cars such as Lamborghini Miura and Marzal, Lancia Stratos or Alfa Romeo Carabo and Montreal: creations that had never been seen before, innovative designs in terms of both aesthetics and engineering, style icons sought after by the jet set all over the world.
However, some of his genius is not immediately associated with him. Some ideas, which he holds dear, are less celebrated than others, like the Renault Supercinque or Citroën Bx, city cars that were designed to be reliable and functional and were a worldwide success.
In him, the international design culture recognises the unstoppable ability to propose iconic products that, while innovating in an intimately mechanical key (that Turin school identified with the courageous path of Nuccio Bertone), with Gandini break out of the thematic boundaries of car design, dialoguing with pop art, with mythology of the conquest of space, with fashion design.
This volume, the exhibition catalogue, witnesses and confirms the long-term value that the Museum assigns to this project and to Gandini-thought.
The creations on display: Alfa Romeo Carabo (1968), Alfa Romeo Montreal (1970), Bertone Runabout (1969), Innocenti Mini 90/120 (1974), Lamborghini Countach (1971), Lamborghini Espada (1968), Lamborghini Marzal (1967), Lamborghini Miura (1966), Lambretta LUI (1967), Lancia Strato's HF (Zero) (1970), Lancia Stratos HF (1971), Maserati Khamsin (1972), Moto Guzzi V7 (1971), Renault Supercinque (1984), Volvo Tundra (1979), and Helicopter CH7 Angel (1991).
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