Il corpo della Citta’. Moda e arti tra Liberty e modernità 1884 – 1961

Place: Palazzo Madama - Civic Museum of Ancient Art. Address: Piazza Castello, 10 Turin is a city that has managed to reinvent itself several times throughout its history. After losing its role as capital of the Kingdom of Italy in 1865, it built new identities through industry, culture, fashion, art and innovation. It is precisely this process of transformation that is the starting point of The body of the city, the new exhibition at Palazzo Madama that recounts a century of Turin history through the body: represented, dressed, disciplined, liberated and transformed by the profound evolutions of modern society. In ideal continuity with the exhibition MonumenTo. The shape of memory, the project offers an original point of view through which to observe the evolution of the city through the body, understood not only as an artistic subject, but as a space in which social, economic and cultural changes are reflected, an ideal place of intersection between fashion, art and urban transformations. If MonumenTo questioned the relationship between the city and monuments, The body of the city shifts the gaze onto people, onto the intimate relationship that binds the forms of the city to those of the pe