July 14, 2021 – November 7, 2021
Carole A. Feuerman at Galleria d’Arte Moderna
From La Biennale di Venezia & Open to Rome. International Perspectives
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Carole A. Feuerman at Galleria d’Arte Moderna marked the artist’s first exhibition in Rome, bringing a focused selection of her figurative sculpture into one of the city’s principal modern art institutions. Presented as the ninth edition of From La Biennale di Venezia & Open to Rome. International Perspectives, the exhibition placed Feuerman’s swimmers, bathers and athletic figures within the historic spaces of the museum.
Works in vividly colored resin appeared alongside more recent bronzes accented with gold leaf, revealing how Feuerman moves between immediate visual realism and a more inward exploration of balance, physical tension and psychological stillness.
Stillness, Tension and Surface
Feuerman’s sculptures often occupy the moment immediately before or after action. Swimmers close their eyes, athletes hold difficult positions and bodies appear suspended between effort and release. The realism of skin, fabric and posture attracts attention first, but the longer encounter is shaped by the emotional distance of figures who seem absorbed in their own interior space.
The Rome exhibition brought together several aspects of that practice. Bibi on the Ball introduced bright color and playful scale, while Monumental Brooke with Beach Ball approached rest through a quieter relationship between body and object. Other works shifted toward burnished bronze, where areas of gold leaf created a sharper dialogue between material weight and reflected light.
The presentation also included Feuerman’s engagement with classical sculptural traditions. Her interpretation of The Thinker, for example, placed a familiar historical gesture within the language of contemporary Hyperrealism, creating a conversation between the human body, sculptural memory and the architecture of the museum.
From Venice to Rome
The exhibition formed part of a program established to bring international projects associated with Venice into new settings in the Italian capital. Rather than reproducing earlier installations unchanged, the initiative reconfigured works in response to Rome and to the architecture of its exhibition spaces.
For Feuerman, the project extended beyond the museum itself. During the same period, the monumental bronzes Strength and Fire & Harmony were installed on the nearby Pincio Terrace, carrying the exhibition into public space and establishing a dialogue between the museum presentation and the city beyond its walls.
Curated by Paolo De Grandis and Carlotta Scarpa, the Rome exhibition was promoted by Roma Culture and the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, in collaboration with PDG Arte Communications and in partnership with Bel-Air Fine Art. Originally scheduled to close in October, the exhibition was subsequently extended through November 7, 2021.
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