La Vision de Voisin - November 2012 through June 25, 2013
Voisin automobiles are icons of the 1920s and 1930s with their luscious marriage of aerodynamic efficiency, art deco aesthetic, mechanical detail, and luxurious interiors. Gabriel Voisin, the genius behind these designs brought an obsessive focus to producing field-changing advances to every discipline in which he worked - aviation, architecture, automobile design, and engineering.
La Vision de Voisin explores the breadth of Voisin’s work, beginning with his early work in aviation and his tormented quest to be credited with the first one kilometer powered flight from take off to banked turn and landing. It continues with his groundbreaking advances in automobile design; explores his forays into business and manufacturing; and reveals his voracious appetite for beauty and his inspired imaginings of architecture, civic infrastructure and mobility in the future.
The exhibition uses Gabriel Voisin’s own words and those of his growing list of admirers to shed light on the trajectory of his career. It includes selections of annotated drawings and sketches; film and photography; scale models; and personal correspondence and memorabilia from his family. La Vision de Voisin features 17 Voisin vehicles on display at the Mullin Automotive Museum, including the 1935 Voisin C25 Aerodyne that won the Best of Show trophy at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance.
Although more than 10,000 automobiles were built at Voisin’s factory in suburban Paris from 1918 to the late 1930s, less than 150 are known to still exist. This exhibition offers a first ever opportunity in the United States to see so many examples of Voisin’s work in one place. It gathers original artifacts from around the world to help better understand the complicated man behind the legendary genius.
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La Vision de Voisin explores the breadth of Voisin’s work, beginning with his early work in aviation and his tormented quest to be credited with the first one kilometer powered flight from take off to banked turn and landing. It continues with his groundbreaking advances in automobile design; explores his forays into business and manufacturing; and reveals his voracious appetite for beauty and his inspired imaginings of architecture, civic infrastructure and mobility in the future.
The exhibition uses Gabriel Voisin’s own words and those of his growing list of admirers to shed light on the trajectory of his career. It includes selections of annotated drawings and sketches; film and photography; scale models; and personal correspondence and memorabilia from his family. La Vision de Voisin features 17 Voisin vehicles on display at the Mullin Automotive Museum, including the 1935 Voisin C25 Aerodyne that won the Best of Show trophy at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance.
Although more than 10,000 automobiles were built at Voisin’s factory in suburban Paris from 1918 to the late 1930s, less than 150 are known to still exist. This exhibition offers a first ever opportunity in the United States to see so many examples of Voisin’s work in one place. It gathers original artifacts from around the world to help better understand the complicated man behind the legendary genius.
Click here for tickets.
2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Best of Show Winner, the Mullin Automotive Museum's 1935 Voisin C25 Aerodyne.
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“Gabriel Voisin is one of the few great minds in the field of technology whose genius did not lie in the elaboration of a single brilliant concept, but rather in his capacity to adopt completely new frames of reference, and then to imagine new possibilities in those terms.”
—H. R. Kousbroek |
