The automobile is the quintessential vehicle. That machine that gives us the possibility to move spatially, but also to engage in various types of symbolism, whether of status, identity, among others. This has led to the act of designing a car becoming a process closely related to art. Art being an important influence, but also the automobile a crucial element within artistic work.

The amount of inspiration it has provoked is countless: cinema, music, literature, painting, performance, photography, video art, and installation. Milestones of visual and plastic arts in history, where the automobile itself becomes a medium for artists. Its symbolic connotation surpasses its factual implication. The automobile became a symbol and image, which, like a photograph or painting, can be appropriated and reinterpreted in any way. Art has taken care of immersing it in the footprint of time, immortalizing automobiles that are or were important for certain generations and contexts.

Understanding art as a way to translate the world, is not the automobile conceived as an extension of its users, considered art? In this constant search to understand the symbols that construct us – and that we ourselves construct – the modifications we make to the things around us, our context and possessions, can bring us a little closer to a much more personal reality.

Based on this idea, the workshop Jacobo and María Ángeles has decided to engage in thetuningof reality, in the intervention of various objects and in the contribution to the reconstruction and appropriation of reality. This is how TUNING becomes a line of work in which automobiles have been intervened in order to translate our worldview in different ways.

In this line of production, they have collaborated with two brands: Mercedes Benz and Mastretta Cars.

This is our latest exhibition in the workshop gallery.