Almost initiatory the corridor from the courtyard of the castle of Ferrara you must travel, while the modern, sacred and unapproachable "Temple of Diana" is revealed to us slowly before his eyes.
The material of construction assails us with its scent: soap.
you enter, you start to walk and pass under the first arch that leads to another stretch of hallway in front of us stands a structure of a square base six feet high built entirely of bricks of soap, the vision is dream-like, the white material appears to us slowly, illuminated by natural light reflects the candor, the front of the temple is slightly in shadow (the sacred can not be seen by eyes profane, fully lit): begin to unconsciously perceiving the purity that is hidden inside.
continue to walk towards the temple, you begin to feel, in addition to the smell of soap and clean that all the "inner sanctum" issues, the 'howling pack of dogs of Actaeon in pursuit of their master. Proceeding
the barking of hunting dogs is increasing and takes us to the temple, plunges us in the knowledge that the sacred is elusive, that the Sacred must remain invisible to human eyes, on pain of metamorphosis, as happened to Actaeon myth narrated in the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid, into something that has nothing more to human changed into an animal, a deer, chased and mauled by dogs that he owned.
Stefano Guerrini has revisited his work with the myth of Diana and Actaeon, he played on the image of the nymphs and virgins of the goddess of the hunt, they bathe in the lake, reported their purity out of their own: the clear water was transfigured and installing a metaphor that hides and conceals in part to the visitor, forced to spiarle by an open forum in structure, but at a distance.
The structure is protected by chains and stakes road forbid us to go further, warning us not to come into full contact with the structure "sacred" built with hundreds of bars of soap laundry.
The smell is strong, suddenly we find the hole, poked around inside the temple and here they are, the nymphs, and Diana in a picture painted by the Cavalier d 'Arpino, or rather, one can see while they perform their ablutions in the waters regardless crystal. We're watching the
Actaeon as he did and we know that they are pure, we sense the smell.
curious look but can not be relaxed, there's something terrible waiting for us, which brought us up to it, the sacred and inviolable, the dogs had warned us, the poles and chains that separate us we had put in guard the peace emerges smelling with vehemence, but the sight and hearing we create a disturbing feeling, Diana, the sacred being ready to punish us and our prayers will be worth nothing, nothing in our approach or move away to the temple. The same purity
submitted to us by the artist using the soap but this is the same truck that obscures vision. Only a small hole from a missing bar of soap, and nothing more, it allows us to glimpse the nymphs. The Sacred
get angry if the eye goes beyond what is unthinkable and must remain so invisible, terrible pain caused to those who will look in vain to know and see.
Both the man of ancient Greek myths that modern man is unable to participate in the sacredness and "Intolerance Diana "reminds us how vulnerable we are to the divine.
Stefano Guerrini has reworked the myth involving three senses of the viewer, having hearing and smell, perhaps we would have liked also that the tact was participating? If only it were not for the chains red and white, we could reach out and touch the temple, but the artist knows that man can not dare so much.
not forget that Adam and Eve, for the taste, the last effect, we have cast out of heaven and we have "won" the original sin.
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