Body and myth; topicality of Greek statuary

Abstract

The present proposal reflects, from the codes and language of contemporary drawing, around the battered and fragmented condition from which Hellenistic Greek sculpture reaches our contemporaneity. It is about exploring, on an aesthetic level, the subversive potential of those  figures so deeply rooted in collective imaginary with regard to the ideal -both past and contemporary- of certain representation of body and the values ​​to it associated. The starting point consist in considering that the exposed and degraded materiality of these representations and classic mythological heroes undermines the continuation of the "mythical narrative" of the Enlightenment and its current paths; In these statues shows the temporality, fragility and vulnerability, inherent to bodies, which are been ignored, if not deny in the representation and establishment of the self, during the Modernity and the current late Modernity,