On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the first film in the Back to the Future saga by Robert Zemeckis, the MAUTO - National Automobile Museum presents the exhibition BACK TO THE FUTURE. TIME PROTOTYPES that explores the deep relationship between two of the most iconic mass design objects - watches and cars - highlighting their emotional, mechanical, and symbolic resonances. Through this lens, the exhibition investigates the contemporary perception of time - increasingly accelerated and fragmented by the digital age - while also celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Back to the Future, the film in which a car literally transforms into a time machine.

The iconic 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 designed by Giorgietto Giugiaro is the protagonist of the exhibition, accompanied by sketches and glossy prints - from the Italdesign Archive - selected to tell the creative process behind the car that has marked the history of cinema and design. In addition to the car and its designs, the exhibition pays tribute to the pop masterpiece with a series of original items from the film production.

In this context, the presence of twelve works from the Suspended series by Anri Sala, one of the greatest contemporary artists, constitutes a separate installation: twelve - like the hands of a clock - digital drawings that relate time and space, chronography and geography. Works of extraordinary beauty, capable of offering a powerful reflection on the suspension and fluidity of time, but also on the relationship between eidos and chronos, between time and space, between the visible and the intangible passage of hours and minutes, the only thing that - although not providing certain proof of existence, beyond mathematical measure - leaves indelible traces on our lives.