Join us for Teo Live – touring exhibitions online event on 12 May 2026
Join us for Teo Live – touring exhibitions online event on 12 May 2026
The body, in its fragility and power, in everyday gestures or in dance, was one of the great protagonists of art between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This exhibition explores the evolution of the representation of the body in motion, from the Impressionists — with particular attention to Edgar Degas, master of the suspended moment and the figure captured in motion — to the disjointed and dynamic forms of Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger‘s Cubism.
This exhibition journey explores the languages of the twentieth century to explore how the body has been represented, interpreted, and transformed. From the silent and private dance of Degas’s ballerinas, captured in moments of pause, concentration, and fatigue, we move to Picasso’s scenic experiments with “Le Tricorne”, where the body enters the theatrical space as a dynamic, stylized form, playing on volumes and colors that reinvent its presence. Finally, we arrive at Léger’s collective and industrial vision, in which the body becomes a cog in the wheel of modernity, a rhythmic and functional element of a mechanical choreography.
The exhibition seeks to establish a dialogue between the sensitivity of intimate gesture and the mechanical and impersonal vision of the modern body, tracing a path that questions perception, space, and time.
The exhibitions is curated by Francesca Bogliolo, art critic, art therapist, and independent curator of artistic exhibitions for public and private institutions. Over the years, she has collaborated with galleries and museum institutions and has long been involved in cataloging cultural heritage for the CEI. She has numerous publications to her name.
Among the exhibitions she has curated are those dedicated to Antonio Ligabue and Joan Miró, as well as shows focusing on important women photographers such as Tina Modotti and Ruth Orkin.
The exhibition offers an unprecedented dialogue between Impressionism and Cubism. Through a carefully selected selection of engravings and lithographs, the exhibition invites the public to explore the profound differences in how these artists depicted the human body.
On the one hand, the Impressionists — with their sensitivity to light and movement — rendered fluid figures, immersed in everyday life, often captured in spontaneous and natural gestures. In their works, the body is evoked rather than defined, suggested by light, vibrant lines that seem to dance
on the paper.
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