cesare callegari - #9 – 2014

IT SYMBOLIZES THE ANCIENT PAGAN RITUAL OF THE SOWING IN WHICH THE FARMER, ONCE THE SEEDS WERE PLANTED, MASTURBATED HIMSELF OVER THE LAND IN ORDER TO POUR IT WITH HIS SPERM AND TO MAKE IT FERTILE.

PSYCHOLOGIST COMMENT:
«Two things there are, young prince, that hold first rank among men, the Goddess Demeter, that is, the earth, call her which name thou please; she it is that feedeth men with solid food; and as her counterpart came this God, the son of Semele [Dionysus], who discovered the juice of the grape and introduced it to mankind.» excerpt from Euripides, The Bacchantes (translated by E.P. Coleridge), vv. 275-80

ARTIST’S COMMENT:
My seed spreads life. The life I’m into. In spreading my seed I spread myself. And I want to spread myself to make new and good things grow.

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“IF A CRASH TEST DUMMY COULD CHOOSE: 9 VISIONS”

9 Visions/9 Plays: The project is about the loss of importance of the manhood in our late times: i’ve made quite my way through that, based on my experience matched up with the medical opinion of a psychologist and sex therapist, doctor Raffaele Bifulco. he followed the creation of each sculpture and compared them with his working experience, taking concepts his patients express and giving to them his medical view. 

That’s why every sculpture comes with a medical description of the kind of manhood it represents. The common shape resulted from 2 references:

1. The movie “L’ultima donna” by director Marco Ferreri (with Gerard Depardieu and Ornella Muti), in the final scene in which depardieu cuts his penis, as to cut away the origin of all his problems.

2. the book “Il nome della rosa” by author Umberto Eco. The main character of the book claims that when the rose has passed its beauty, the only memory is its scent. In every vision you will find written all the artworks description plus size/materials/medical comment.