Luigi & Iango's 'Corpi Speciali' at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Explores the Contemporary Body

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• 'Corpi speciali' runs from 13 October to 29 November 2026 at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome
• The exhibition features over two hundred photographs by Luigi & Iango, the duo of Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi
• It is curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti and produced and organized by Tenderstories
• The show includes unpublished images and shots already part of the collective imagination, with portraits of cultural figures, performers, dancers and international icons
• Galleria Nazionale director Renata Cristina Mazzantini said the exhibition restores attention to the materiality, fragility and diversity of the human body
• Tenderstories founder Moreno Zani described the project as a poetic escape from spectacle in which identity is a choice and a possibility
• The display opens with a portrait of an elderly person with closed eyes, which the curator associates with suffering and the Madonna iconography
• A catalogue reproducing all exhibited works includes an essay by Alfano Miglietti and a conversation between the curator and the artists
• Luigi & Iango have made more than three hundred covers for major international fashion magazines
• Their work appeared in the Thierry Mugler touring project at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (2019), Kunsthal Rotterdam and Hypo-Kunsthalle Munich (2020), and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (2021)
• They showed at the Brooklyn Museum in 2022 and in a solo exhibition at Palazzo Reale, Milan in 2023
• Their work was also featured in the French Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai