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D'Aponte has perfectly immersed himself in the epic of the debut of motor racing. The physiognomy of the characters is reflected in the whole being of the soul: typical gestures, aquiline profiles, tense or frowning expressions, poetics of the faces. Every little detail is rendered with elegance and expressive truth. The dynamism of the racing cars lights up with the majestic reds of the bodywork that reveal all their imposing dynamism. Those moments of existence are even more enhanced by the scratchy hatching and by the help of washed out or textured, scratched or dissolved pigment, which becomes a 'passionate pulsating jet'. Each image remains steeped in that lived time that becomes memory and at the same time becomes eternal, in the suggestive and intense brushstrokes that reveal the story of a brave, between lyricism and reality. You seem to hear the thunderous sound of the engines, perceive the smell of engine grease on your skin, see the bumpy and dusty roads crossed at full speed by fearless racers. Monochromes and colors become bearers of feelings and lightness, describing victories, falls, joys and sorrows, expectations and nostalgia with alternating lights and shadows. Illustrations, painting and comics interpenetrate to such an extent that, through images, what has passed is perpetuated.