Through different media and across generations, the exhibition proposes a reading of the body as a living archive bringing together works by Marina Abramović, Pietro Lista, Thelonious Stokes, Szymon Oltarzewski, Andy Warhol, Daniele Sigalot, Salustiano, Carole Feuerman, Cristiano Pintaldi, Michelangelo Bastiani, Andrea Guastavino and Veljko Vučković.
‘The Body is Indestructible’ unfolds across three distinct exhibition spaces. In the main space is presented a rare canvas work by Marina Abramović, ‘Woman in Green’ (1965), in which the figure appears engaged in a symbolic process of bodily liberation and gradual emancipation from the layered constructions of identity. In dialogue with this work, pieces by Pietro Lista, Thelonious Stokes and Szymon Oltarzewski explore the body as an archetypal and primordial presence. The second room and third room features works by Andy Warhol’s Ladies and Gentlemen series (1975), currently on view at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, examining the representation of the body as the boundary between masculine and feminine identity. The works of Daniele Sigalot, Salustiano, and Carole Feuerman traverse diverse techniques and expressive languages, addressing themes of self through image construction, perceptual alteration, and hyperreal presence; the works in relation to photography and video of Michelangelo Bastiani and Andrea Guastavino enter dialogue with the paintings of Veljko Vučković and Cristiano Pintaldi, often inspired by the world of cinema, these works create a dynamic exchange between painting, photography, and video, investigating the transformation of the body as a visual experience situated between the analogue and the digital, physical perception and fiction.
OPENING: June 25, 2026, 7:00 PM
Aria Art Gallery, Borgo Santi Apostoli 40r, Florence
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