Dimensions: 70x50 cm

Price: € 360

Year: 2020

Technique: paint on canvas

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Daedalus’ Labyrinth (from labrys, double axe, solar and regal symbol) was commissioned by Minos King of Crete to protect the population from the monstrous Minotaur , head and tail of a bull and body of a man. This is how Borges describes his obsessive dream: “ a small, clean labyrinth with an anphora I almost touched in the centre of it, I could see it with my own eyes but the complex passages were so confusing that only one thing seemed to be clear: I would have died before reaching it.” Today Theseus is not here, neither is Ariadne, there’s only the labyrinth left. We are the Minotaur: cloned, mechanized. Fused like machines and AI. Our desperate scream goes up to the sky. No mercy. We only need  ice cream to get over things, to compensate. We asked for it.  The “smurfy-blue” greenish colour squeezed out of a paint tube, vaguely reminds us of a pistachio and anise flavoured topping.

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The work is signed and dated by the artist.