"In the Labyrinth (of Borges)" Painting

The painting is inspired by the novel "The House of Asterion" by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Asterione is the occupant of a house of many corridors and rooms, swimming pools and courtyards, where every 9 years 9 men die immediately after having seen it, not even having him the chance to get close to them. He spends his days and years waiting for the one who will redeem him. It will be Theseus, who will later tell Arianna how the Minotaur (just now we realize who Asterione actually was) hardly resisted his death. I loved this perspective on a mythological creature always seen from a very violent and obscure point of view. My Minotaur (whose "mask" in the shape of a bull head is seen on the base of the painting) is more a man than a beast, and has the same feelings, the same fears and desires that we have, sometimes hidden behind another face or a mask. This is one of the works (increasing in the last two years) inspired by literary and mythological sources (as happened for characters like Ofelia and Lorelei), because once again history and the past help us to understand ourselves and the contemporary world. The painting, whose preparation began with the welding of the slabs, to then devote myself to the oxidation phase and finally to the painting, also shows a background sprinkled with bitumen, which in my intentions infuses the work with a particularly dramatic character.

Painting:Oil on Steel

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35.4 W x 59.1 H x 2 D in

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