01 Aug “Carole A. Feuerman. The Voice of the Body.” At Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome, until September 21, 2025. From Moebius for Arthemisia, with Tecnostampa, Loreto.

From July 4 to September 21, 2025, Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome will host “Carole A. Feuerman. The Voice of the Body,” curated by Demetrio Paparoni. This is the first major retrospective exhibition in Italy of American artist Carole A. Feuerman, one of the most surprising protagonists of contemporary pop superrealism, capable of shaping the human body into a powerful, vivid, and deeply emotional narrative.
Produced and organized by Arthemisia in collaboration with the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, with over 50 works including sculptures, drawings, photographs, and a site-specific installation created specifically for an anthological journey that recounts Feuerman’s extraordinary career,   the exhibition brings together a large collection of works from the 1970s depicting fragments of predominantly female bodies, in many cases laden with erotic implications, connected to the dynamics of postmodernism and feminist demands.
The creations of the following decades, through small details and multiple expressions—from wet skin to more intimate manifestations—transform sculpture into a form of storytelling that goes beyond the static image. Each work is a small universe that speaks of beauty, identity, memory, and transformation. Her technique combines materials such as resin, bronze, silicone, stainless steel, and paint, which seem almost ready to move or tell a story.

For art historian John Spike, Carole A. Feuerman is the “queen of super-realism,” famous above all for her “swimmers,” sculptures of athletic, smiling young women in the act of swimming or just out of the water. Feuerman’s sculptures are more than mere representations: they are visual manifestations that speak of strength, survival, and balance, where the favorite subject is the human figure, often a woman in an introspective moment of exuberant self-awareness. Every detail—a drop of water, a fold of skin, a glance—is an invitation to listen to the silent cry of the body, to perceive its voice.
Through the representation of the body—from the body fragments of his early career to the more recent tattooed bodies—the artist articulates his deepest dialogue with the contemporary human condition, transforming the surface of the skin into a complex map of meanings that go far beyond mere physical representation.

Carole A. Feuerman
An internationally renowned American artist, Carole A. Feuerman lives in New York and Florida and has studios in both Manhattan and Jersey City.
She has taught, lectured, and held workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Columbia University, and Grounds for Sculpture. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Her work was included in An American Odyssey 1945-1980 alongside the most important American artists of the post-World War II era. Her works are exhibited in the world’s most prestigious museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State Hermitage, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, The Bass Museum, The Boca Ratum Museum, and the Forbes Magazine Art Collection. Her art is included in the collections of President and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Frederic R. Weisman Art Foundation, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Michael Gorbachev Art Foundation, the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection, and the State Hermitage in Russia.

“FEUERMAN
The Voice of the Body”
The exhibition, produced and organized by Arthemisia in collaboration with the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, curated by Demetrio Paparoni

Publisher:
Moebius
Printing:
Tecnostampa
Loreto (AN) Trevi (PG) Italy

Loreto (AN) Trevi (PG) Italia

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