The Macabre Dance
Sculpture Addé 2019
The Middle Ages was a long period of history during which wars, incessant fighting, unstoppable famines and plagues, public executions, and misery, made the vision of death omnipresent.
Not only present but visible, death, the dead in all their states, were part of life.
Nowadays, death is discreet, blurred, masked, sweetened, in short, practically invisible in its crude reality.
For centuries, it has been a terrible vision that had to be sublimated.
The macabre dance, which unites living and dead in the same movement, also contains an egalitarian morality: from the richest to the poorest, from the most powerful to the most miserable, all hold hands in this hopeless saraband empty of desire, empty of illusion, towards the tomb of vanities.
“Death looks neither at the rank, nor at the wealth, nor at the sex, nor at the age of those it brings into its dance”.
La Danse Macabre
Le Moyen Âge a été une longue période de l’histoire au cours de laquelle les guerres, les combats incessants, les famines et les fléaux insurmontables, les exécutions publiques et la misère ont rendu omniprésente la vision de la mort.
Non seulement présente mais visible, la mort, les morts dans tous leurs états, faisaient partie de la vie.
Aujourd’hui, la mort est discrète, floue, masquée, édulcorée, bref, pratiquement invisible dans sa dure réalité.
Pendant des siècles, c’est une vision terrible qu’il a fallu sublimer.
La danse macabre, qui unit les vivants et les morts dans un même mouvement, contient aussi une morale égalitaire : des plus riches aux plus pauvres, des plus puissants aux plus misérables, tous se tiennent la main dans cette sarabande sans espoir, sans désir, sans illusion, vers la tombe des vanités.
« La Mort ne regarde ni le rang, ni les richesses, ni le sexe, ni l’âge de ceux qu’elle fait entrer dans sa danse ».
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019.
The Macabre Dance © Addé 2019 – photos Xea B.
A sculpture to celebrate life
Une sculpture pour célébrer la vie
La Danse Macabre – Camille Saint-Saëns
Cela fait penser à la renaissance avec ces os (?) paraissant de jeunes pousses jaillissant de la putidication.
Oui, c’est bien le principe. Merci Eric !
i see
What do you see?
Hi Xea/Addé. Just commented on “The Macabre Dance”, but rejected/blocked by the GoDaddy firewall. Anyway, here it is:
“[The header at the top]
What a vision! I see feet in the vast nothingness. Each sticking out from a very long leg. With no heads. Animated, yet devoid of life. Something horrifyingly commonplace these days. At the time of the living dead.
[The single ones underneath]
La petite mort. The most wanted briefest time in history. 🙂
Take care you guys. Cheers!
Hello there, problem fixed !
Quite interesting to read you for each piece you comment on, as you interpret them in your own original way.
What you express, beyond us (you and I) demonstrates the importance of an art work’s contents, as opposed to minimalism, such as “this is a chair” or “this canvas is uniformly painted in blue” :o))
Good to have you here with us.
Take good care of yourself !