Les défis du corps

Italian Cultural Institute of Paris

The exhibition explored the extraordinary dimension of the human body as projected into the sporting arena or the abstraction of dance. Without claiming to be exhaustive, it retraced the relationship between art and sport throughout the centuries.

Three major works were featured: Man in Motion by Umberto Boccioni, a 1913 sculpture that became emblematic not only of the Futurist movement but of 20th-century sculpture as a whole; the Seated Boxer, a bronze dating back to the 1st century BC and currently housed at the National Roman Museum, shown here as a replica created for the Tota Italia exhibition in Beijing; and a plaster cast of the Discobolus of Lancellotti, from the collection of the University of Rome La Sapienza.

Gian Paolo Barbieri was invited to participate with his work Catherine Noyes, Interview Mag. Milan, 1986, which became part of the Farnesina Collection after being acquired for the exhibition Italiae. From the Alinari to the Masters of Contemporary Photography.

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Italian Cultural Institute of Paris

May 16 – September 18, 2024