STOLA TRIBUTE TO CARLO MOLLINO

From September 20th 2006 to January 7th 2007 an exhibition dedicated to Carlo Mollino will be held at the Modern Art Gallery GAM of Torino and at the Rivoli’s Castle. The exhibit will show the 1:1 scale model realized by Stola on a smaller model achieved in the 50s by the great Torinese architect who died in 1973.

Carlo Mollino has been a man with deep and diversified interests, a not ordinary artist: architect, acrobatic pilot, skier, photographer, interior designer, writer. One of his greatest and life lasting loves was the one for speed and motoring, not just as a sport cars pilot but also – and mostly – as a designer and car planner, voted to the inexhaustible search of the perfect line, seduced by the myth of “record”, with a futurist taste, of whom still today, half a century after, we discover unpublished and surprising testimonies.

Among his things kept by the Mollino House Museum there is even a racing car’s model. Recently, during the constant activity of studying of his works, done by the Museum, have emerged new documents about the realization of the mentioned model, a futuristic attempt directed towards the speed record.

Stola Group, considered one of the most “ancient” Piedmontese companies able to combine the “workshop’s experience” with the uninterrupted technological evolution, wanted to pay tribute to the quality of Carlo Mollino achieving a 1:1 scale version of one of his two racing car’s plans. It follows a car 5.5 metres long that will be exposed to the public, for the whole period of the exhibition, in the hall of the Turin Modern Art Gallery from September 20th 2006 to January 7th 2007.

Conscious of the great patrimony made of tradition, honest thought, culture and seriousness in working that Turin and Piedmont have, Stola Group continues in his promotional activity of initiatives aimed to remind those deep “codes” able to generate and reborn passions, dreams and interest for creativity in young people.

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