La Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo tra i prestatori della mostra SUL FUTURO DEL CORPO

From September 5 to October 4, 2026, the Galleria Civica Cavour in Padua will host the exhibition "On the Future of the Body," curated by Barbara Codogno. The exhibition brings together over 50 significant paintings and sculptures, many of large dimensions, by 17 of the most authoritative figures in the new international figurative movement, questioning the body in terms of identity, memory, control, and transformation.

Among the supporters of the exhibition, the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation, also based in Padua, actively participates with a loan of two paintings by Cuban artist Julio Larraz: "A Video Show in the War Room" and "The Exiled" – displayed to the public for the first time following their recent acquisition.

Regarding Larraz, curator Barbara Codogno explains: “In Julio Larraz's works, the personal dimension of the protagonists intertwines with history, geopolitics, and economics. The figures that inhabit his paintings seem to move within silent and rarefied interiors where maps, furnishings, and objects hold symbolic value equal to that of the characters. Larraz suggests that any reflection on individual identity remains inseparable from the economic and geopolitical systems that determine mobility, belonging, and access to resources.”

The other artists in the exhibition are: Radu Belcin, Enrica Berselli, Luca Bidoli, Greta Bisandola, Angelo Brugnera, Chiara Calore, Fabbio Copercini, Chandra Fanti, Angelo Giordano, Alfio Giurato, Maurizio L'Altrella, Nunzio Paci, Flavia Pitiș, Stefano Reolon, Nicola Samorì, Markus Schinwald.

Their works illustrate how the body has returned to the center of artistic research not merely as a simple iconographic subject but as a critical space through which to read the cultural and social transformations of the present.

“Painting and sculpture thus become instruments of resistance,” Codogno explains, “the material, the gesture, the time of execution, and even the error restore to the body its irreplaceable presence. The works share the same condition of flesh: its fragility, its impermanence, its capacity for transformation. Despite the diversity of languages, the artists share a common awareness: the body is the place where the great tensions of our time manifest themselves. Identity, control, memory, desire, belonging, technology, and the sacred become inseparable dimensions of a reflection that permeates the entire exhibition path.”

“On the Future of the Body” thus arises from a reflection on the fate of humanity in an era of its progressive dematerialization. Far from the rhetoric of technology and post-human narratives, the exhibition assumes the body as a living archive, a symbolic and political space where memory, desire, transformation, and power relations continue to be inscribed.

The exhibition is realized in collaboration with the Municipality of Padua – Department of Culture, and with the participation of the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation and the Coppola Foundation.