Second exhibition to open in the spaces of MUVEC, the showcase proposes a comparison between the protagonists of the Vienna Secession – Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka – and some contemporary artistic research, starting from the theme of the body as a privileged tool to investigate the human soul.
In their works, the body appears direct, at times restless, and even brutal: from Klimt's sensual and refined figures, to Schiele's tense and emaciated anatomies, to Kokoschka's vibrant and expressionist painting, capable of reflecting the cultural tensions of an era on the eve of the First World War.
The journey then opens up to contemporary art with artists such as Chen Zhen, Vanessa Beecroft, and Marlene Dumas, in whose works the body continues to be the protagonist: fragile, exposed, and transformed into a symbol of the dynamics between individual identity, inner dimension, and public representation in the world of images.
