Roberto Cuoghi, an artist who escapes any schema or definition, makes works based on the systematic exploration of the body itself in terms of rotation, dissection, deformation and abuse. Cuoghi, in the same manner as Manzelli, reduces the body to its minimum representable form and then modifies it, as if the artist possessed a power to act not only on his own body, but also on those of others. Cuoghi transforms and disfigures the faces of prominent personalities from the artistic field, intervening with tools such as photoshop, torturing and "altering the distinctive features" of people who have been transformed into icons. This underlines the fragility of the body, the immortality of famous personalities, and the belonging of each of us to a humanity that is simultaneously both victim and victimizer. After the pictorial and cosmetic metamorphosis of the body, which dialogues with the anguish of our existence, where everything seems to have been morphed into something material and related to corporeality, a desire to exist as an essence, to disappear and dialogue with the concept of absence-presence, emerges in the artist.