David Cronenberg's 'Red Cars' Exhibition at MAC Lissone

David Cronenberg's artist book 'Red Cars,' originally a screenplay for an unmade film about the 1961 Ferrari racing tragedy, is now on exhibit at MAC Lissone. The project began after his film 'Crash' and explores the rivalry between Ferrari drivers Phil Hill and Wolfgang von Trips, the latter dying in a crash at Monza. Cronenberg envisioned Mel Gibson and later Brad Pitt for the role of Hill, but the film stalled. Years later, with Volumina's Domenico De Gaetano, he transformed the script into an artist book, researching archives at Ferrari and the Museo dell'Automobile di Torino. The exhibition features the book with aluminum cover and race car sounds. Cronenberg discusses themes of obsession, perfectionism, and the visceral human emotions in the Ferrari story, particularly Hill's anxieties and Enzo Ferrari's decision to dismantle the winning car model. He views art as a tool to disturb and reveal truth, free from political correctness.