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Your host: Gabriella Brassai
Well, it needs some explanation why a guest house in Esztergom at the bottom of the Castle Hill bears this name: Medusa House.
The owner of this guest house, Gabriella Brassai is a painter who often uses in her art modern images like the medusa. In the meantime, she always aims to show a woman’s soul in her art and, in this feminist aspect of her work she is deeply touched by Luciano Garibaldi’s modern Medusa statue which has become one of the strongest feminist symbols of modern days.
The Greek Myth
In the original Greek myth, Medusa is a monstrous woman with snakes for her hair. Poseidon rapes her in Athena’s temple turning the goddess very angry. Athena chooses to punish Medusa and not Poseidon. She turns Medusa into a Gorgon and exiles her. Later Perseus is sent to bring Medusa’s head to King Polydectes. It was not easy to approach the Gorgon shaped Medusa, because anybody who looked into her eyes turned into stone. To avoid looking into her eyes, Perseus brought a mirror shield, put on winged sandals, and took a special sack for her head. Perseus creeped upon Medusa while she was sleeping, cut off her head and then uses it as a weapon for turning enemies into stone.
Celini’s statue in Florence
One of the most famous representations of this Greek myth is Cellini’s statue entitled Perseus with the hed of Medusa, in Piazza della Signoria, in Florence.
Luciano Garbati’s modern Medusa Statue in Argentina
Garbati spent some of his young years in a small town near Florence, in Italy and he was astonished by Cellini’s statue. He became to question the characterization of Medusa as a monster, since she was raped, cursed, and killed. This modern-day artist became fascinated by the idea of creating a victorious Medusa statue, which he finally did. In this new inverted Medusa statue, the woman is the winner, and she is holding Perseus’s head in her hand, which is an self portrait of Garbati himself.
Source: https://qz.com
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