Michelangelo Pistoletto's Female Vitruvian Man at Vinci Museum

Michelangelo Pistoletto presented a reinterpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man at the Museo Leonardiano in Vinci, placing a female body at the center of the universe. The work, titled Segno Arte, consists of a 'door' formed by the intersection of two triangles, within which Pistoletto inscribes a human figure with raised arms and spread legs. Curator Paola Salvi explained that Pistoletto's reflection on the relationship between body and space goes beyond mere imitation, offering a 'new Renaissance' or rebirth. The contemporary body is no longer the rigidly schematized male form of the Renaissance but a female one, with the navel as its generative point—'the door from which the body is composed,' as Leonardo himself wrote. Pistoletto noted that the navel is a sign that unites us only to the mother, a sign of life creation and maternity, placed at the center of his Segno Arte. The exhibition 'L'Uomo Vitruviano e le proporzioni del corpo umano,' curated by Paola Salvi, ran until October 15, 2015, at the Museo Leonardiano in Vinci.