You have seen the 155 Q4 "Speed Record" with its parachute and the 75 Evolution on display, but there is another object that binds us constantly at Milano Rho Fiera...

Those who have visited Autoclassica in these days, have been able to admire our Alfa 155 Q4 Rercord di Velocità, exhibited at the CMAE stand, together with its famous parachute used in braking after Gianni Marin, then director of Gente Motori, conquered the record by speeding at 185 mph. Obviously, we couldn't let the "little one" go out alone, so we asked the 75 Evoluzione to accompany its sister, under the watchful eye of theAlfa Club Milano, led by Andrea Vecchi. Despite all precautions, we "caught" our redhead keeping late hours, but don't worry, we checked and she didn't "raise the rev counter".

But perhaps not everyone knows that ... there is another object that constantly links the Fratelli Cozzi Museum with La Fiera di Milano Rho.

This link dates back ten years ago when, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Alfa Romeo, the Italian Alfa Romeo Register donated a precious work of art created and signed by the Alfa Romeo Style Centre and Agostino Bonalumi. In order to create the monument, 100 bronze multiples on a scale of 1:10 were made, purchased and competed for by enthusiasts from all over the world who thus financed the creation of the original monument placed at the entrance to the Fiera Milano Rho, paying homage to the memory of Alfa Romeo.

The multiple 60/100 (a tribute to Pietro Cozzi's 60 years of activity) is kept at the Fratelli Cozzi Museum: 40 cm high, it is 47 cm long and about 25 cm wide; it weighs about 12 kg and, like each specimen, is signed by the Style Centre and by Bonalumi, hand numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Model 60/100, kept at the Cozzi.Lab

Agostino Bonalumi (Vimercate, July 10, 1935 - Desio, September 18, 2013) was an Italian painter, considered one of the most important figures of abstract art of the 20th century. After technical and mechanical studies Bonalumi entered the artistic climate of Milan at a very young age, attending the studio of Enrico Baj where he met Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani. Acknowledging the end of the propulsive thrust of informal art, he collaborated with the magazine Azimuth, which proposed the total cancellation of the previous artistic experience and a new beginning, based on a new pact with social progress. This zeroing was carried out by Manzoni, Castellani and Bonalumi with the use of monochrome canvases (often totally white), everted with various techniques in order to create effects of light and shadow that changed with the inclination of the light source. Agostino Bonalumi's work, while remaining faithful to the artistic medium initially chosen, is considered by many critics to be extremely imaginative and always new in the creation of new and original plays of light and shadow. Particular attention should be paid to the work of the seventies and eighties, with perspective shadows contrary to the directions of normal light sources, creating a disorienting effect, this approach is to be explained as a break with traditional pictorial standards, in fact, if throughout the history of art man has always studied perspective to create a realistic pictorial effect, Bonalumi overturns it, or distorts it by creating his own personal "point of view" in line with the early movement to which he belonged. In 2001 he was awarded the prize of the President of the Republic. In 2002 he presented the work environment at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice. Among the many exhibitions dedicated to him, he also exhibited at the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil (1966), the Paris Biennial (1968) and the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1981. In 2006 he received the Artist of the Year Award. Bonalumi's works are actively sought after by collectors around the world and he is constantly traded in the most prestigious auctions such as the famous "Italian Sales" in London. In 2018 Palazzo Reale in Milan in collaboration with the Museo del Novecento dedicated to him the exhibition Bonalumi 1958-2013, an anthological exhibition including more than 120 works.