body

An object of fascination, knowledge and experimentation, the human body has always been represented in art-to the point where, over the course of the 20th century, it became one of the constituent materials of works themselves. Whether we are talking about the body of the artist or his/her model, or about the body as an object of science, the works that allude to it are concerned with the physical reality of the human being. This section of the exhibition deals with the body in its relationship to medical science and laboratory research.