In a similar way to the recent piece “Laocoon and His Sons”, I found it interesting and playful to remake one of my favorite pieces: a classical Greek sculpture, the Barberini Faun.
I wanted to “appropriate” the original by mixing the idea of the old “Faun” with that of the current “Furry” and along the way exacerbate the eroticism of the piece by transforming the intoxication of the original “Faun” into the excitement of the “Furry” of my version , highlighting the sculpture’s own history of transformation.
You see: in the original piece – which is a Roman copy from the 1st century BC. from a Greek bronze original from the 3rd century BC -, the character is deeply asleep as a result of his drunkenness. But in a restoration of Roman marble carried out in the 18th century, the pose of the character’s right leg ended up being modified, to a bent position much higher than in its original posture, a detail that ended up transforming the original meaning of the work. , going from sleep and drunkenness to one of lasciviousness and sexual provocation.
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