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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

DadAndroginErmete

Luigi Ontani

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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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Hermaesthetics is a term invented by the artist that originates from herm, the truncated-conical pillar bearing the head of a divinity, used in ancient Greece to indicate the roads to Athens and later, in Roman times, in celebratory portraiture. In this case, the title of the work helps to reveal its hidden meaning, in which the artist, playing as usual with linguistic manipulations, refers to the free and casual associations of Dadaism, recalled here by the dice, symbol of the unpredictability of fate, which hangs on the figure's head. Reference is also made to the Androgyne of the myth told by Plato in the Symposium - where the origin of humanity was traced to three species of human beings: the male, the female and a third specimen with both genders - and to Hermes, the Mercury of the Romans, who was not originally a god, but the personification of the totemic virtues of a phallic simulacrum. This one, best known for his role as messenger of the gods, is generally represented with winged shoes, helmet and caduceus, and he was also associated with scientific spirit and artistic sensitivity. Finally, there is a reference to Hermes Trimegistus (three sometimes wise ), traditionally depicted with three heads, from which the term" hermeticism "comes, that is the initiatory knowledge that can be reached with study and dedication.
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Title: DadAndroginErmete

Author: Luigi Ontani

Date: 1987

Technique: Papier mache and wood

Displayed in: GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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