Description: The sculpture consists of a 2 meter long double steel beam with an approximately 1.3 m high insert made of Estremoz marble. The marble shows a formal life-size half-relief of a nude male figure from approximately the hairline to the lower third of the shin. Only the left one half of the body can be seen, the marble has been carved and smoothed with a rasp. 'You blind fools, what is more important, the gold or the temple MT 23,17', this inscription can be read in blue spray paint on the left side of the wearer.
Content: A halved, naked man, carved in relief from light marble stone, contrasted with dark steel. A wide eye looks out of a serious one face. A frozen body, its left arm at its side, is wedged into a steel gap. The accompanying inscription from the Gospel of Mark refers to the well-known biblical scene in which Jesus tries to persuade the Pharisees to understand. He describes them as “blind fools”, as people with lack of spiritual insight and condemns their false standards.
But who is depicted here? It is a seeing one! One half of his defenseless body is in the visible, physical world, limited by steel beams. The other half of the body, not shown, can be associated with invisibility and thus freedom in thinking and acting without restricted, bound physicality. In addition, the combination of stone and metal in the choice of materials when designing the sculpture enables the connection Prometheus, who is considered a symbol of the creative artist. Prometheus, the friend and creator of the Greek people Mythology, was chained to the rocks of the Caucasus as punishment for his disobedience to Zeus, the father of the gods. In the traditional one
Version of the Roman scholar Gaius Julius Hyginus, when Prometheus was redeemed by Heracles after 1000 years of torment, he had to die for eternity on the orders of Zeus wear a finger ring made of stone and iron as a symbolic bondage to commemorate his punishment.
With “You Fools”, the sculptor Martin Piehler has created a work in which he combines Christian-biblical imagery with content from ancient Greek mythology connected. A seer who, in his divided, physical imprisonment, sees far beyond the spiritually limited world.
