The sculpture represents two people, each with its heavy sphere, to be carried upwards. They appear to be two Sisyphus. The myth of Sisyphus tells that in order to punish the sagacity of the man who had dared to challenge the gods, Zeus decided that Sisyphus should have pushed a boulder from the base to the top of a mountain. However, every time Sisyphus reached the top, the boulder rolled back to the base of the mountain and each time, and for eternity, Sisyphus would have to start his climb all over again and never succeed.
Albert Camus, in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus of 1942, saw in Sisyphus the personification of the absurdity of human life, which would leave suicide as the solution, even if the "physical" one does not solve the problem of meaning; but Camus concludes his philosophical thoughts by stating: "We must imagine Sisyphus happy and free while climbing the weight that rolls down." Here in the sculpture the Sisyphus has doubled, but they will never reach the top as the two characters get in the way of each other. But the absurdity is that they cannot understand the reason that prevents them from moving forward. We who can see the situation from far away, in an objective way, we know that if you bend your head under the heavy load you cannot see what the other is doing, as your gaze is directed only towards your own feet and you only feel that nothing is going on. that we are loved by a God and not condemned to make this commitment as Sisyphus. The sphere is the symbol of our earthly mission, it is the weight we bear every day with our ability and our will, this is important for us, for our life, for our mission. We work by supporting this sphere every day, in private life as well as in political life. But if the spheres become burdens, weights, as it would appear in this sculpture, they prevent us from seeing one another and do not allow us to get to the top, to then be happy and free as we climb the weight that rolls down, we need to rethink our mission, rectify our doctrines, overcome our selfishness. We must set apart the spheres to give our neighbor a hand, to help each other to arrive at the goal together and not to put obstacles and hindrances between each other.
Title: Summit meeting
Author: Wolfang Lettl
Date: 2003
Technique: Aluminum sculpture
Displayed in: LETTL - Museum of Surreal Art
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