![]() ![]() Īndersen and Garbati later collaborated on an application to New York City's Art in the Parks program. Medusa was the centerpiece of Medusa With The Head, a pop-up exhibition in the Bowery that ran from November 2018 to January 2019. This image was seen by New York photographer Bek Andersen, who quickly got into contact with an anonymous patron of the arts. In New York City Ī photograph of Medusa, captioned "Be thankful we only want equality and not payback", went viral on social media in 2018. He would later state that he was unaware of Medusa's status as a feminist icon at the time. ![]() In an interview with Quartz, he drew the distinction between Cellini's Perseus and his Medusa in the former Perseus is triumphant, while in the latter Medusa is determined, and had acted in self defense. Garbati grew up in a small town near Florence, where Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa is prominently displayed in the Loggia Lanzi of the Piazza della Signoria he admired Cellini's work, and wanted to reverse the roles of the narrative. The sculpture stands just over 2 metres tall. The original Medusa was sculpted in clay, then cast in resin with fibreglass reinforcements. The sculpture depicts a nude Medusa holding the head of Perseus in her right hand and a sword in her left. Medusa With The Head of Perseus will be on view from Octoto April 30, 2021.Garbati was copying Cellini's statue of Perseus. She’s a goddess, and she’s on a mission.” She wanted to be in the world, and we’re just vessels in the right place at the right time to facilitate that. “When a work of art is powerful, it takes on a life of its own,” Anderson said. Their concern was alleviated when the proposal was accepted and approved. The two proposed the project to the city’s Parks Department but were looking for alternatives at the same time in case of rejection. Garbati then received a call from Anderson, who helped him to produce a bronze version of the original sculpture and choose a place in New York where the new sculpture would stand. ![]() I have been receiving lots of messages from women, sharing their emotions.” “Nobody knew at the time what I was thinking, or even if I was a male or a woman doing sculpture,” Garbati said. The photos went viral, and the sculpture became a symbol of resistance for women. He posted photos of it on social media in 2018, at the height of Me Too movement and the year the Argentine Senate rejected a bill that would make abortion legal if it is within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Garbati made the original Medusa sculpture in 2008. Medusa Sculpture stands across New York County Criminal Court where high profile abusers were tried. After all this, Medusa was slain by the epic hero Perseus who used her head as a trophy. She cursed Medusa with a head of hair made of snakes and a gaze with the power to turn everyone into stone. Poseidon eventually raped her and the incident brought the rage of Athena. According to a Latin narrative poem by Roman poet Ovid, Medusa was a maiden in the temple of Athena who attracted the attention of Poseidon. Medusa’s fate was doomed from the beginning. According to the organizers of the sculpture, Medusa With The Head of Perseus has been deliberately sited across the street from the courthouse where “high profile abuse cases, including the recent Harvey Weinstein trial.” ![]() Garbati seeks to change the traditional narrative of Medusa by portraying her in a somber moment of self-defense, holding the head of her slayer. The sculpture was then unveiled by Garbati’s children. Before the unveiling, the sculpture was covered by a green cloth, a symbol for the pro-choice movement in Argentina where the sculpture’s creator Luciano Garbati is from. ![]()
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