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With Walter Oltmann’s exhibition, ‘In Time’, having come down recently, current artist in residence
@guanciale_ has taken over the Project Space
@villa_legodi_cfs , as a working studio, where he is displaying pre-existing works alongside works developed during his residency.
The artwork pictured above is called ‘Cerberus’s Den’, and was initially exhibited
@michaelisschooloffineart as part of Gabriele’s MA, “Reforming the Monstrous”.
This body of work focused on the mythological figure of the monster; the archetypal other, cast as the antagonist to be slain by the righteous male hero. These characters can be regarded as some of the first martyrs of both patriarchal violence and man’s domination of the “natural” world.
The following excerpt, taken from their MA thesis, provides more context and information. The full thesis can be accessed online on the
@villa_legodi_cfs website.
“Cerberus (the three-headed hell hound who was famously dognapped by Heracles) and his den at the entrance of the underworld offers a figurative and literal portal to the earthly, Chthonic realm. In this installation, Cerberus has been reimagined as an aardwolf. Much like Cerberus of myth, aardwolves spend most of their time away from the surface world in subterranean burrows. Generally nocturnal foragers (unlike other hyenas they are not scavengers but subsist on termites), they are shy and rarely seen by humans. Amidst tangled wooden roots, his three heads protrude from their den. The rest of his body is hidden from view. How far does the den extend, and what else might be hiding in its secretive depths?”
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