Lichtundfire is pleased to present ORPHEUS & EURYDICE, an exhibition in various media, painting, sculpture, and works on paper, that, based upon the eponymous Greek myth, centers around the human condition of attraction, seduction, betrayal, the juncture of mortality/immortality, failing and overcoming, triumph and death.
According to the myth, Orpheus was a talented musician, poet, and artist known for his soothing voice and seductive play of the lyre– who was a human prodigy, and particular interest of Apollo, the god of the Arts and Philosophy, who first gifted him a lyre. Orpheus had fallen in love with Eurydice who as a human was taken from him shortly after their wedding ceremony when she was bitten by a snake, or another poisonous animal, based on different interpretations, and was whisked away to the underworld upon her death in a forest or lush meadow
