This volume is dedicated to Medea, the barbaric sorceress from the passion for Jason, helps him with his magical arts to conquer the golden fleece, betraying his father and his homeland. Capable of every in order to achieve his purpose, he will see his beloved
turn under his eyes from brave hero into petty opportunist and his love in pain, humiliation, deep hatred and anger. A rage that, in the tragedy of Euripides, will culminate in killing their children.
At the centre of a large international exhibition at the Antico Mercato in the island of Ortigia, in Syracuse, the myth of Medea was revisited byMargaux Bricler, Chiara Calore, Cian Dayrit, Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson, Francesco De Grandi, Ruprecht Von Kaufmann, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Sverre Malling, Rafael Megall, Ruben Pang, Vera Portatadino, Daniel Pitin, Nazzarena Poli Maramotti, Nicola Samorì, Natee Utarit, Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun.
Facing events These artists have been confronted with extreme the myth, and sometimes with its interpretations in the history of art. The texts of Demetrio Paparoni accompany us on this journey, Roberto Alajmo, Tiziano Scarpa and the same artists.
The volume includes reproductions of numerous paintings dedicated to Medea, including those by Artemisia Gentileschi, Peter Paul Rubens, Charles André van Loo, Eugène Delacroix, Anselm Feuerbach, William Russell Flint, George Romney, Frederick Sandys, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Gustave Moreau, William Turner, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, John William Waterhouse and Paul Cézanne.
Nazarena Poli Maramotti is inspired by the caption image of a painting from the workshop of Corrado Giaquinto (1752). In the eighteenth-century painting, the assassination has just taken place; a snake looms over the children's bodies which, due to a contamination between the Greek myth and Christian thought, is perceived as the devil who inspired the crime. The artist operates a sort of dissolution of the reference painting, making it become one with the nature in which it is immersed. By adding pictorial material to a clearer first draft, the artist subtracts the figurative property by translating it into an abstraction in which the theme of infanticide is treated as something unspeakable for the horror it arouses – but which nevertheless emerges thanks to the clear detail of the knife in the foreground.
SKIRA editore spa
First Edition: 2023
Language: Italian and English
Pages: 144
Base: 24 cm
Height: 28 cm
Binding: Brochure
Price: € 30
ISBN: 978-88-572-5023-6
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