The Art Lover

Overturning of the scene represented in the famous sculpture "Ratto delle Sabine" by Giambologna, in Florence.

Reversing the meaning so that it is not repeated. Women are not raped as legend tells, indeed they take pleasure from using the male as their object for pleasure. The male in turn takes pleasure in giving pleasure, abandoning himself to sensory and Dionysian ecstasy.

Act not of violence, not of abuse or even aimed at reproduction.

Cathartic act of pleasure and sensory exaltation.

Overturning also because the number of males and females is inverted (compared to the original one), exorcising the symbolism, they participate in a game of attraction and mutual enjoyment.

Soft criticism of the patriarchal and violent model, and powerful criticism of the millennial censorship still suffered by Art in all its forms, in thought and expression.

The narrative moves from a reality that is disturbed by mental visions, to the overwhelming of these over reality. Fantasy takes over and becomes concrete. Until the overturning of reality and fantasy. In the end it will be the imagination that is disturbed by incursions of reality.

But who can say which is one and which the other one?

"What if the victim was the one who desires?” We are overwhelmed by unfulfilled desires. Desiring something and not being able to obtain that, could be the worst suffering. Overwhelming and disorienting. Rousing frustration of the soul. The condemnation does not lie in the lack of maintenance, but in the desire that becomes a claim. Transformed through the enjoyment of what one has: art, vision, breath, sound and silence. Moans.

The ecstasy of aesthetic and ecstatic enjoyment.

The forms, the body and its language show what transcends them.

What gives rise to the world.

Beyond artistic creation.

Beyond forms, beyond physics.

Imprinted in the flesh. In the marble.