An exhibition that provokes, questions, and brings together the artists who have been most controversial: what caused the hyperrealist sculptures to short-circuit visitors’ minds? We know they are not real, yet that skin, hair, beards, fingers tell us otherwise. The naked bodies shock us, the eyes hypnotize us, and those dimensions-sometimes perfectly to scale and sometimes wrong-confuse us: It looks alive! Is it really?

This exhibition is dedicated to great international hyperrealist sculpture, told through the most important contemporary artists. “It looks alive!” will be the most uttered phrase in front of the incredible works by Maurizio Cattelan, Ron Mueck, George Segal, Carole Feuerman, Mathilde ter Heijne and many others.

May 26th – October 28th, 2023

Palazzo Bonaparte
Roma, Italy