Women. Body and Image, symbolic and revolutionary, Exhibition, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome: 24 January -13 October 2019

From the beginning of the 1960s the struggle for equal rights generated a deep change in female self-perception, and a widening in women’s perspectives in many environments, including the artistic one. The feminine ideal has been different through times and depicted after them; the unsettling figure of the femme fatale, the female naked body in its most intimate dimension,women as artists' and their perception of themselves, feminine inwardness and woman as a political battlefield. 

Whether the woman is seen as an object to admire, portrayed as an angel or as a temptress or a mysterious subject, DONNE. Corpo e immagine tra simbolo e rivoluzione is a reflection of the female figure as seen through the eyes of artists who have represented and celebrated women throughout the different artistic trends and cultural tendencies that prevailed from the late 19th century, throughout the 20^th, and up to the present day. The exhibition includes video-installations, photographic documents and films.