Peter Fischli. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, 2026.

Peter Fischli’s work takes as its starting point the image of tourist trains on wheels that travel through cities, offering passengers a guided and uniform visual experience. The artist breaks these “trains without tracks” into a series of disparate parts: carriages upside down, overturned, rendered unusable. The result is a reflection on mass tourism and the total consumability of history and culture. The little trains rise vertically along the ramp of the former FIAT factory at the Lingotto, following an impossible route that symbolically connects the base of the building, today occupied by a shopping center, to its cultural summit, represented by the museum on the car test track. At the same time, this visual fragmentation recalls the imagery of Futurism and its idea of modernity and progress, of which the Lingotto is an emblem. The logical and serial process