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Von Händler/Antiquariat, DEMETRIUS SIATRAS.
Exhibition catalogue. In English. Soft cover, 29 cm, 224 pp., Ill.; net weight 1420 gr. ISBN: 9789963732265.The Venus Paradox: A. G. Leventis Gallery collaborates with 19 museums, institutions and private collections to present a landmark exhibition.The exhibition animates the Cypriot goddess and woman through the painting of great artists from the Renaissance and the Baroque to Realism and Impressionism. The Venus Paradox reveals Venus as a mother, as an immortal and as a mistress (between love, life and death (through stories of passion, jealousy, quarrels and misery. A hymn to the absolute goddess of Cyprus, dedicated to literature, dance, theater, and modern Cypriot art. According to tradition that has Venus emerging from the foam of the sea on the coast of Paphos, the goddess of love is linked with the fate of Cyprus and becomes probably the most prominent mythological stereotype of the island. With the title ‘The Venus Paradox’, both this exhibition and the catalogue published on this occasion, aspire to overcome this stereotype and encroach on the most iconic mythological figure of Cyprus in a way that will conquer paradoxically this well-known perception of the goddess. The focus is not on Venus as depicted in antiquity but the Venus of Western tradition and the ‘mutations’ of the goddess of love through different expressions of Western European art, her prominent position in the wider artistic production of the Western world, as well as through her changing face: the multifaceted and multidimensional image of Venus as depicted in western painting from the 15th to the 20th century. What emerges is an image that, often echoing the ancient traditions of the goddess, changes over the centuries, taking on new shades. An intake of the goddess that brings in Venus repeated, often opposing approaches and traits, making her, in many ways, an embodiment of concepts that extend far beyond the simplified concept of the goddess of. An image, sometimes controversial, often paradoxical, always seductive and never as clear as we would expect from the tradition that surrounds Venus, thus becoming even more exciting as a subject of research and study. The exhibition begins with the same paradoxical image of Cypriot Venus that swings between the role of the mortal woman and the immortal goddess and, as Pierre de Ronsard's lyrics emphasize, Aphrodite may be considered the most widespread stereotype of Cyprus, as it is depicted in ‘Aphrodite's Death’, it is always contemporary, always unpredictable, always multifaceted and paradoxical.The exhibition takes place within the framework of the Cultural Capital of Europe Paphos 2017...================================================IMPORTANT: The shipping cost in not included in the price. You will have to approve it at confirmation of the order.

Daten vom 22.03.2019 20:51h
ISBN (andere Schreibweisen): 9963-732-26-7, 978-9963-732-26-5