Meat & Bees
BEES AND MEAT ARE CONNECTED IN A WIDE-RANGING SERIES OF MYTHS
AND STORIES DATING FROM PREHISTORY TO THE PRESENT. THESE
CONCERN ASPECTS OF THE METABOLIC AS SYMBOLIZED BY THE HONEYBEE
EMERGING FROM THE ROTTING FLESH OF AN ANIMAL.
THIS CONCEPT CAN FIRST BE SEEN ILLUSTRATED IN CAVE PAINTINGS, SUCH
AS THE ONE PAINTED IN 15000 BCE IN VALENCIA, SPAIN. LATER WE KNOW
OF THE CULT OF THE APIS BULL IN ANCIENT EGYPT THROUGH
HIEROGLYPHICS. THE STORY OF SAMPSON SLAYING THE LION AND
DISCOVERING HONEY IN ITS TORSO IS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. OF
PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO THIS EXHIBITION IS THE MYTH OF ARISTEAUS,
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY’S BEEKEEPER WHO LOSES HIS QUEEN BEE FOR HIS
ROLE IN EURYDICE’S DEMISE AND LATER IS RECONNECTED WITH THE BEE IN
THE SUSPENDED CARCASS OF A SACRIFICED LAMB. THIS MYTH IS BEST
KNOWN FROM THE ROMAN POET VIRGIL’S EPIC, GEORGICS.
THE NOTION OF TRANSLATION BOTH OF IDEAS AND OF LANGUAGE IS A
SIGNIFICANT ASPECT OF THE ARTIST’S WORK.
AND STORIES DATING FROM PREHISTORY TO THE PRESENT. THESE
CONCERN ASPECTS OF THE METABOLIC AS SYMBOLIZED BY THE HONEYBEE
EMERGING FROM THE ROTTING FLESH OF AN ANIMAL.
THIS CONCEPT CAN FIRST BE SEEN ILLUSTRATED IN CAVE PAINTINGS, SUCH
AS THE ONE PAINTED IN 15000 BCE IN VALENCIA, SPAIN. LATER WE KNOW
OF THE CULT OF THE APIS BULL IN ANCIENT EGYPT THROUGH
HIEROGLYPHICS. THE STORY OF SAMPSON SLAYING THE LION AND
DISCOVERING HONEY IN ITS TORSO IS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. OF
PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO THIS EXHIBITION IS THE MYTH OF ARISTEAUS,
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY’S BEEKEEPER WHO LOSES HIS QUEEN BEE FOR HIS
ROLE IN EURYDICE’S DEMISE AND LATER IS RECONNECTED WITH THE BEE IN
THE SUSPENDED CARCASS OF A SACRIFICED LAMB. THIS MYTH IS BEST
KNOWN FROM THE ROMAN POET VIRGIL’S EPIC, GEORGICS.
THE NOTION OF TRANSLATION BOTH OF IDEAS AND OF LANGUAGE IS A
SIGNIFICANT ASPECT OF THE ARTIST’S WORK.
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