![]() ![]() Dare I say, comparable to art created during the renaissance. I won’t argue, it is a wonderful and very powerful piece of art. So why is this statue celebrated so much? Should there be a statue of a Father showing his children torn away from him by the court system and him holding a saber with Lady Justice’s head in his other hand? Should there be a statue of LGBTQs depicting violent and discriminatory acts against those who have oppressed them? The only thing such representations of hate, anger, and vengeance do is incite the same in others. ![]() should there be a statue next to this of a mythological or superhuman colored individual lynching figures representing white male & female Judges, police officers, ect? Of course not, hate begets hate, violence begets violence. With centuries of racial acts against people of color from slavery, acts of discrimination, and racial targeting by authorities and the courts…. RAPE DOES NOT JUSTIFY POST MEDITATED MURDER. Where’s the #NOH8 campaign on that, or does such a campaign only side with the transgressions of LGBTQ and Women? While this statue represents the anger and torment of a women having been raped, it also depicts the toxic retribution of a society accepting of such vengeance. This would depict a perfect example of “Toxic Feminism”. ![]() Why isn’t Medusa also holding the head of Athena? Is the representation to suggest only Men will receive this perverted sense of justice? Why not just replace lady justice with this statue now. Yet, this statue is only depicts vengeance upon the Man and ignores Athena’s transgression. You can try and rationalize all day that it is only a historical mythological reference, but we ALL know it is much more than that, but keeping with the mythological storyline, Athena’s jealousy and bitterness cursed Medusa for what Poseidon did. I, like many, understand the symbolic gesture this statue represents. The the Weinstein trial was not planned, but a major bonus. The two artists wanted the sculpture to be in a public space, and in working with the Parks Department, liked the connection to the courthouses when considering the theme of justice. ![]() (Smaller models of the sculpture in resin are already sold out.) It’s displayed now as part of the Parks Department’s Art in the Parks program, on view until April 2021. To promote the work, Andersen founded the MWTH Project - a riff on myth - and showed the sculpture along with several other pieces challenging classical themes last year in Soho. The piece now stands 7 feet tall and was cast in bronze Carbon Sculpt Studios in Red Hook. New York artist Bek Andersen encountered it there, tracked down Garbati and the two plotted to bring the work to NYC. In 2018, he uploaded an image of it to Facebook where it became a meme in support of #metoo. Garbati first created the sculpture in 2008 in resin. She gained those powers, and the snakes for hair, after being cursed by Athena: the goddess was angry that Poseidon had raped the mortal Medusa in Athena’s temple, and took it out on the maiden. Of course just the title alone tells you that the sculptor has turned the myth on its head too: the way the Greeks wrote it, Perseus decapitates Medusa therefore ending her reign of terror, where she turned all caught in her gaze to stone. And for a minute I didn’t even recognize the snakes - I just thought it was a woman who had cut off a man’s head. “Medusa With the Head of Perseus” by Luciano Garbati is so frank I found it startling. An extreme version of victim-shaming perpetuated in classical mythology has been reinterpreted by an Argentine-Italian sculptor and adopted by the #MeToo movement in a statue on view at Collect Pond Park. ![]()
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