The Voice of the Body, the Superrealism of Carole Feuerman

The water droplets slide down on the skin, the light smiles, barely hinted at; the legs in tension and the foot wearing the ballet slipper; and again, hands that search and embrace, tattoos that tell stories, broken and incomplete bodies that bear imprinted traumas, changes, triumphs and defeats alongside. They are suspended figures, impossible to place in time and space, those at center of artistic research of Carole A. Feuerman, sculptor American superrealist protagonist at Palazzo Bonaparte from July 4th to September 21st of the great anthology - the first set up in Europe - dedicated to her by the title "The voice of the body". Curated by Demetrio Paparoni, produced and organized by Arthemisia and Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, the exhibition condenses in over 50 works more than 5 decades of an artistic practice started in the early 70s and has continued to this day with the same looking at the story of the body, not so much as an object to be contemplate, but as a universal language. And it is precisely the body that in the path - between sculptures, drawings, photographs and a site specific installation, all works made in different materials, from resin to bronze, from silicone to stainless steel and paint - it becomes a living presence, emotion, symbol of the strength and fragility of the condition human. Beauty, identity, memory and transformation are the themes embraced by the works of Feuerman (born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1945) that especially in the female image offers the visitor all the power of its message. In women's bodies - full-length but also in fragments -, which almost seem to move because they are so realistic, they condense in fact meanings that refer to awareness, battles interiors, exuberance, identity, memory and transformation, reflecting the contradictions of contemporary society as well like the artist's feminist approach.