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The Tragedy of Acis and Galatea - Danny Avidan

Past exhibition
14 September - 29 October 2022 Gallery
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The Tragedy of Acis and Galatea by a Danny Avidan Installation view
The Tragedy of Acis and Galatea by a Danny Avidan Installation view

Avidan’s canvases pulse with myth and memory, binding matter and meaning in a raw, cyclical dance between creation and dissolution.

The Tragedy of Acis and Galatea marks the first Italian solo exhibition of artist Danny Avidan, presented by Tube Culture Hall in collaboration with Andrea Festa Fine Art. Drawing inspiration from the myth of Galatea, Avidan weaves mythology, organic matter, and emotional memory into a rich, tactile body of work. His paintings resemble living organisms—scratched, layered, and fluid—moving between violence and beauty, creation and decay.
 
The exhibition, underscored by a poetic text from curator Domenico De Chirico, explores metamorphosis through a visceral visual language of blood, milk, and flesh tones, inviting viewers into a cyclical, transformative journey between myth, matter, and mortality.
 
"I love everything that flows, everything that has time in it and becoming, that brings us back to the beginning where there is never end: the violence of the prophets, the obscenity that is ecstasy, the wisdom of the fanatic, the priest with his rubber litany, the foul words of the whore, the spittle that floats away in the gutter, the milk of the breast and the bitter honey that pours from the womb, all that is fluid, melting, dissolute and dissolvent, all the pus and dirt that in flowing is purified, that loses its sense of origin, that makes the great circuit toward death and dissolution."

The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here and now. A fatuous, suicidal wish that is constipated by words and paralyzed by thought..."—Henry Miller, "Tropic of Cancer" (first published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris).
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