The mythic figure of Prometheus has inspired many poets, painters, and musicians since the age of romanticism. For Goethe and Henry Fuseli, the titan who stole the fire from the gods of ancient Greek became the embodiment of mankind struggling for autonomy and self-determination. Until the present day this universal message is continued in the tradition of the Olympic Flame. Yet the fire has come not only to our benefit. Along with it came also menace upon mankind. This is the subject of a major work by Venezuelan artist ...
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The mythic figure of Prometheus has inspired many poets, painters, and musicians since the age of romanticism. For Goethe and Henry Fuseli, the titan who stole the fire from the gods of ancient Greek became the embodiment of mankind struggling for autonomy and self-determination. Until the present day this universal message is continued in the tradition of the Olympic Flame. Yet the fire has come not only to our benefit. Along with it came also menace upon mankind. This is the subject of a major work by Venezuelan artist Javier Tellez (born 1969). In his film installation 1/2 Rotations (Prometheus and Zwitter) of 2011, two sculptures slowly rotate before a camera: Prometheus by Arno Breker (1900 91), one of the Nazis favorite sculptors, and Zwitter (hermaphrodite) by the German art-brut artist Karl Genzel (1871 1925), regarded by the Nazis as degenerate. Both works were on display in the Nazi propaganda shows of 1937 in Munich, Breker s in the Grosse Deutsche Kunstaustellung (Great German Art Exhibition) and Genzel s in the coinciding defaming exhibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art). This new book juxtaposes paintings and drawings reflecting the Prometheus myth by Henry Fuseli with Javier Tellez capital work of contemporary art."
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