Triumph Bonneville — Grimsel Pass
Triumph Bonneville —
Grimsel Pass
A founding Alpine composition through which the Maison established the mountain pass as a subject of cultural inscription, joining movement, landscape and Swiss continuity.
Issued in 2018, the work places the Triumph Bonneville within the high territory of Grimsel, where mechanical rhythm and Alpine passage enter a single recorded field.
Triumph Bonneville — Grimsel Pass
Recorded Characteristics
Movement across the high Alpine passes
Grimsel forms part of the high Alpine territory shaped by the Furka, Grimsel and Susten passes around the source of the Rhône. Before tunnels displaced such routes from everyday necessity, these roads stood as places of crossing, exposure and orientation within the Swiss landscape.
Swiss Legendary Drives was developed to preserve these territories through a visual language joining Alpine travel, mechanical rhythm and cultural continuity. Triumph Bonneville — Grimsel Pass belongs to the founding body through which movement became one of the Maison’s principal structural subjects.
The composition also carries the trace of a direct encounter with Grimsel. Experienced by motorcycle and inhabited at altitude, the pass entered the work as a lived territory rather than as distant scenery. That proximity gives the composition its atmosphere of passage, exposure and physical memory.