プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot


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Category: Sculpture
  • Joseph Beuys at Thaddeus Ropac

    Interested in the natural sciences from childhood and enrolled in the Hitler Youth (membership was compulsory at the time), Beuys developed a body of work in which visceral warmth and mechanical coldness collide. That tension is inseparable from a youth shaped by the Third Reich (1921–1945) and from the scars of his own wartime experience…

  • Layo Bright: Let America Be America Again

    I keep returning to the surfaces and details of this self-portrait by Layo Bright, and its title, drawn from Langston Hughes—my favorite poet—Let America Be America Again (1935). A 90-years-old poem, and still just as relevant today. Using the language of flowers and colors (inspired by the American flag), Nigerian-born artist Layo Bright explores themes…

  • Bernini’s Proserpina Through Gautier’s Arria Marcella

    Now housed in Rome’s Galleria Borghese, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Rape of Proserpina (1621–1622) stands as a striking testament to the emotional and technical heights of early Baroque sculpture. Commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese and completed when Bernini was just twenty-three years old, the marble group depicts the abduction of Proserpina (Persephone) by Pluto (Hades), as…