The format comes from Piero di Cosimo’s Venus, Mars and Cupid. A pleasant scene, almost cloying in its sweetness. Here,... Read More
The format comes from Piero di Cosimo’s Venus, Mars and Cupid. A pleasant scene, almost cloying in its sweetness. Here, the opposite: it stifles and saturates. Two bodies echo one another with little left to connect them — broken bodies, and the handling is broken too. A flesh tone that never reaches the meeting point between them. Are they speaking to each other, or each dreaming apart, with nothing left to bring them together?
