The exhibition on Medea has been inaugurated in Syracuse

Medea, tragic icon of the female condition, is the protagonist of the international contemporary art exhibition set up in Syracuse and curated by the well-known art critic Demetrio Paparoni. Housed in the historic spaces of the loggia of the Ancient Market of Syracuse, the exhibition was inaugurated last year 5 The exhibition will be open to the public from. It will remain open to visitors, with free admission, until the 30 September.

MEDEA

Subjugated by passion for Jason, Medea helps him with her magical arts to conquer the golden fleece, betraying his father and his country. Capable of any cruelty to achieve his goal, she will see her beloved transform before her eyes from a brave hero into a petty opportunist and her love into pain, humiliation, deep hatred and anger. A rage that, in the tragedy of Euripides, it will culminate in the killing of their children. Medea is one of the most current protagonists of the ancient myth: his tenacity and his desperate pride can be found in many contemporary relationships. His exclusion from society, his tragic revenge, the sense of isolation are not unrelated to many news stories of our day. However, the exhibition addresses the myth of Medea by going beyond the narrative of infanticide.

THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition includes works by 17 artists made expressly on the theme of Medea, among the most famous and controversial characters of Greek mythology. The exhibition bears witness to how much the story of the sorceress, infanticide in the narrative of Euripides, still affects today's imagination. Through the unprecedented gaze of artists of our time from different geographical areas - from Northern Europe to China, from the Caucasus region to Southeast Asia, as well as from Italy – the exhibition highlights the inseparable bond between Syracuse and the ancient theatre. Classical tragedy thus lives again in Syracuse in the field of visual arts thanks to contemporary artistic expressions.

Demetrius Paparoni, Syracusan by birth and Milanese by adoption, wanted to pay homage to his hometown with this prestigious exhibition: a gift for Syracuse that has always remained important to him. “The complex figure of Medea and her story have been the subject of multiple rewrites over the centuries, that Euripides and Seneca, from Jean Anouilh to Christa Wolf – Paparoni explains – The implications and symbolic values ​​that lurk in this myth are such and many that they have made it the object of numerous representations also by painters and sculptors, who interpreted it according to the spirit of their time. As much as the segment of the story that most strikes the imagination, turbandola, and the killing of children, there are few artists who have focused their attention on the moment when violence is unleashed”.

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