Robert Longo ‘Untitled (Formula One Car Crash)’ (2025). Robert Longo is known for employing the delicate materiality of charcoal to underscore the fragility that lies behind all images of power. He has created several series that depict ‘absolutes’ at their moment of fulfilment: bombs exploding, waves crashing, sharks breaching or flowers blooming. In this 2025 work, the compelling instant in which Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso’s car became airborne and struck fellow racer Charles Leclerc’s vehicle during the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix is suspended in time. Debris projects outwards, silhouetted against a cloud of exquisitely rendered white smoke, in an example of the artist’s masterful chiaroscuro technique, which he deploys here to remarkable effect. Slowing the high-speed scene to a halt through the measured, attentive process of charcoal drawing, the artist lends it a counterintuitive sense of stillness and meditation. #RobertLongo robert_longo_studio #ThaddaeusRopac #f1 #fórmul...