15.05 – 20.06.2022
SANTABAGO circle Santarcangelo di Romagna & ZAMAGNI ARTE Rimini, Italy
Kiril Cholakov – Drawings & Sculptures
Maria Konstantini – Theatrical Performance
Giorgio Rattini – Chef & Food Designer
Eros and Psyche
“Eros is an egocentric artist. Psyche is an abandoned hen. The two would never have imagined that ….”
RATING: 16+
Smoking, aphrodisiacs, alcohol, nudity, sexual content, vulgar language, violence.
An artistic project, bringing together drawings, sculptural objects by Kiril C., a theatrical performance by Maria Constantini and a themed food and drink menu by Chef Giorgio Rattini, loosely inspired by Savinio’s text and presented in a comedic style ironizing Amazon Prime TV.
During his literary career, Alberto Savinio (1891-1952) repeatedly read and “rewrote” Apuleius’ “Metamorphoses” (2nd century AD) – a narrative work also known as “The Golden Ass”.
Savinio’s operation of rewriting is characterized, on the one hand, by an adaptation and reworking of the hermeneutic relations between text and reader that Apuleius had established, and, on the other, by a restructuring of sentence techniques. From this point of view, the conceptual tool of meta language is used in the performance of Maria Constantini to explore the way in which Alberto Savinio makes truth and fiction, text and reality interact. Kiril C.’s work presents Savinio’s interpretation of Apuleius’ reworkings, showing how the Italian writer sought to use them to reflect on the problem of evil in human nature.
Embedded in “The Golden Ass”, a glittering gem, is the tale of Cupid and Psyche. Solving the mysterious “prohibition” of this fable is a task that no one — not even Schopenhauer himself, fond as he is of a good bite to chew on — has taken up. Married to Eros, Psyche must refrain from looking at him, fearing the severest penalties. Behind the magical veil and the ineffable lust, then, lies something that “must not be seen (looked at)”?
“Il y a toujours quelque chose de mal dans l’amour”,
“There is always something wrong in love” – Marcelle Prévaux, amid the nonsense, intelligently said so once.
