Vladimir Kolesnikov
Vertumnus and Pomona
Lot 62 Year: 2005Material, technique: Oil pastel on canvas
Size: 75 х 100 cm Estimate: $2740 Start bidding: $2055 SOLD FOR $2055
This monochrome canvas imitating an Italian Mannerism painting quotes a myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Together, the sickle of the Roman goddess and the hammer of Vertumnus, who took guises for his beloved, give birth to another mythological symbol of an absolutely different era and context. Working with the elements of artisanal thinking of the Renaissance titans, the artist destroys the concept of genius which has the central place in the classical aesthetics and thus desacralizes the role of the author.