Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano, is pleased to present a retrospective dedicated to the work of the famous French artist Nicola L. (Morocco, 1932 - United States, 2018). The exhibition represents a unique opportunity to explore the artist's multidisciplinary practice, marked by a subversive spirit that manifests in a surprising variety of languages: from sculpture to performance, from painting to drawing, to collage and film. Nicola L. - I

Am The Last Woman Object is the artist's first museum exhibition in Italy and the largest ever realized to date.

Since the 1960s, Nicola L. has explored softness as a form of resistance. His practice - often associated with Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, feminism, and design - intertwines political activism, cosmology, spirituality, sexuality, and environmentalism. The artist dedicates much of his life - spent between Paris, Brussels, Ibiza, and New York - to "softening" domestic and urban spaces, driven by the desire to connect with other people and environments in constant change.

The large anthropomorphic sculptures by Nicola L., designed to be used as furniture, are among the most iconic works of his playful response to the typical reading of domestic space, particularly regarding the role of women within it. Blurring the boundaries between art and life, the artist has illuminated spaces with lamps shaped like eyes and lips and created a wide range of soft and flexible "chaise longue" in the form of giant human figures, feet, and hands. Famous works such as Little TV Woman: "I Am the Last Woman Object" (1969) or the Femmes Commodes (1969-2014) - wooden wardrobes painted in the shape of stylized female silhouettes, whose body parts open like drawers - offer a bold critique of traditional gender roles and the objectification of women.