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  • NEW WORLDS – Prometheus Bound

  • For centuries, artists have been dealing with the origins of civilization in their works. Prometheus is said to have designed the first people from clay and to have endowed them with human qualities. In the most ancient tradition, he is a cunning fraud, yet other artists and poets glorify him as a benefactor of mankind. However, the representations of other mythological figures in art – such as Max Beckmann’s ›Perseus‹ or Auguste Rodin’s ›Eva‹ – are just as ambiguous as the figure of Prometheus. Some cultures view the snake as the adversary of the divine and who overturns a harmonious paradisiacal state. At the same time, the snake is associated with extremely positive values in other cultural contexts: as a cosmic primal energy in eternal flow and circulation, thus sustaining the universe, or as the mythical being from whom all others descend.
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Works
Ève
  • Rodin, Auguste

  • Ève, 1881 (Guss: 1904 spätestens)

Natterkopf
Perseus. Triptychon
Le lion et le serpent
Schlange
  • Mesoamerika und Andenregion / Anonym

  • Schlange, undatiert

Prometheus Bound