The Lamborghini Huracan Convinced An Artist Enamored With Slowness That Speed Is Good

Occasionally, automakers collaborate with an artist to highlight the beauty of their vehicles and, sometimes, make an art piece. When Lamborghini embarked on its latest collaboration with Italian artist Paolo Troilo, though, he says it fundamentally changed his mind about speed.

“Time. I am enamored with the idea of slowness, and I have always championed it as a key to pleasure, culture, beauty, and success. But there are some encounters that change you,” said Troilo.

A talented illustrator since his youth, his father, an anesthetist, commissioned him as a child to draw the pathological anatomy illustrations he would show at medical conferences. Many years later, Troilo started his career as a painter, but didn’t have brushes and landed on the finger-painting style he used to paint this Lamborghini Huracan, a car that has changed his attitude towards speed.

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“Seeing the Lamborghini Huracán EVO and trying it out suggested to me that there are also things capable of releasing the same energy with acceleration, with speed, with momentum,” said Troilo. “I heard the sound of the wind picking up as the space narrowed and time distorted: I felt a flowing wind and used it to paint on the muse itself, the inspiration of these emotions: the Huracán, my Minotauro.”

Unveiled on November 3 at Le Bullona in Milan, the “Minotauro” will be on display from November 4-13, along with several of the artist’s other works, at Palazzo Serbelloni as part of the “TROILO-MILANO SOLO ANDATA” (Troilo-Milan One Way) exhibition.

“In our company, we are accustomed to art and the way it has always influenced our cars,” said Christian Mastro, Marketing Director for Lamborghini. “However, when our product and the emotions it brings come together with the sensibilities of an artist like Troilo, something different and exceptionally unique like ‘Minotauro’ is created, and we are very proud of this.”