Rimini, 22 August 2025 – Italy, its culture, customs, costumes and dialects united in the last 100 years from the motorway network that since 1924, made Italy, has made Italians. This is the meaning of Exhibition “Italy in motion. Autostrade and future”, edited by Pippo Ciorra and Angela
Relative, who, after the success of the public recorded in the months of exhibition at the Maxxi Museum in Rome, landed at 46th buildingsone of the Rimini meeting, which will take place from 22 to 27 August. A story of Italy between archive images and contemporary photos of the author, made by the Maxxi National Museum of the Arts of the 21st century, in collaboration with Autostrade per l’Italia, in the pavilion of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
A re -adaptation of the exhibition that tells the 100 years of the infrastructure that from North to South crosses the Belpaese to highlight its most important aspects: the strength of the network, its relationship with the landscapes and cultures it crosses, the ability to generate projects and technologies, the tendency to attract settlements and productive energies around its joints. From the inauguration of 1924 of the first motorway section in Italy and Europe of the A8 Milan-Varese, passing through the birth of the two main national arteries, the A1 Milan-
Naples and the A14 Bologna-Taranto, which over the course of a few decades changed the panorama of the peninsula, giving the possibility of development
economic and social of the territories they cross.
Just as at Maxxi, even at the Rimini Meeting the exhibition will be divided into four sections, which do not explore the theme of infrastructures exclusively chronologically, but through the main infrastructure, architectural, urban and cultural issues. Visitors of the Pavilion of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport will begin their path with the network, with the structural wonders that accompanied its construction, illustrated thanks to extraordinary archival materials; It continues with the journey, intended as both anthropological and aesthetic condition of those who use the motorway as a user, but also as a spectator of the architecture and landscape that surround it and that it crosses. The last two sections are linked to two specific clients that Autostrade per l’Italia has entrusted on the occasion of the exhibition to Great photographer Iwan Baan, who has spectacular the motorway landscape in a spectacular way, while the theme of technology and the future of the highways is told by the surreal images of the illustrator Emiliano Ponzi.
An exhibition that arrives at the Rimini Meeting by reconstructing and proposing to visitors a guiding thread of memory and modernity to live and relive Italy, through the story of the development and future challenges of the motorway network that has accompanied Italy in economic and social growth, favoring its industrialization and bringing cities and people closer.
Carlo Franza