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gorgias (Encomium of Helen) Painting

Zalo Kappa

Spain

Painting, Oil on Wood

Size: 40 W x 40 H x 2.5 D cm

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Encomium of Helen The Encomium of Helen is considered to be a good example of epideictic oratory and was supposed to have been Gorgias' "show piece or demonstration piece," which was used to attract students (Matsen, Rollinson and Sousa). In their writings, Gorgias and other sophists speculated "ab...

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2017

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Painting, Oil on Wood

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40 W x 40 H x 2.5 D cm

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In an age of technological innovation, when the competitive flux of production has taken the place of the physical expression of one's inner universe and imaginary, and after it's obituary has been declared innumerous times over the last 150 years, painting presents itself as an act of resistance. A melancholic resistance that mirrors several times and spaces, between past and present, yet mostly, the extent of an utopian time and space: the inner time and space of its author. What room is there in the world for mystery? What language is there for a logic and wisdom that is not binary? Can we go beyond the argument? What other relationship can you have with the world besides dominance? Listening to the truth of being is the silent response to a being's calling. This silent response is found in painting.

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