Lethe and Eunoe is a 2015 sculpture by Jacob Yanes, in balsawood, ethafoam, paper pulp, wood putty, and aqua-resin. The sculpture features personified figures of the rivers Lethe and Eunoe in Dante’s Earthly Paradise.
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Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
By Caleb Taylor
Lethe and Eunoe is a 2015 sculpture by Jacob Yanes, in balsawood, ethafoam, paper pulp, wood putty, and aqua-resin. The sculpture features personified figures of the rivers Lethe and Eunoe in Dante’s Earthly Paradise.
See more images here.
Pierre Vassura, a visual artist born in Romagna, Italy, and based in British Columbia, has created a series of paintings called “ANALOGIES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI’S DIVINE COMEDY, INFERNO – CANTOS 1 TO 10.” Vassura, who paints according to a style he calls “analogical formalism,” uses enamel paint on wood panels to create his abstract depictions of each canto of the first ten cantos of Dante’s poem. See more details at Vassura Analogy Art.
Kat Mustatea’s follow-up to Voidopolis , which was just released as an augmented reality book by MIT Press. Ambivaland traces the narrative of Dante’s Purgatorio, with new constraints and algorithms. See her postings on Instagram.
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“Artworks of Danielius Sodeika are self-purposed. He doesn‘t make them for himself nor others. They appear to be more like questions leaning towards, like the way to check up if the impulse of the vector has continuance.”
“Small-scale sculptural objects from wood, metal, household elements or findings. With their form they remind religious, cultural or archetypal symbols. Storyline is more than in the objects themselves, but also in the spaces between – as signs of invisible power – that tightens chain and breaks the log. Probably it is artist’s way to speak about finality and inevitable entropy – because when it comes – it dominates over all demolishes all other meanings.”
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“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” -Dante Alighieri
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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.