- Lena Hades
Lena Hades ( _ru. Лена Хейдиз) (born
October 2 ,1959 ) is aRussia nartist ,writer and art theorist.She has created more than 40 works, all oil paintings and watercolors dedicated to
Nietzsche 's book "Also Sprach Zarathustra ".An edition of "
Also Sprach Zarathustra " that included 20 Hades paintings from the cycle was published in 2004 in Russian and German by the Institute of Philosophy of theRussian Academy of Sciences .The works of the artist are in the State
Tretyakov Gallery , theMoscow Museum of Modern Art , the National Center for Contemporary Arts, the StatePushkin Museum , and others. The oil painting and graphic cycle "Also Sprach Zarathustra" was exhibited at the FirstMoscow Biennale of contemporary art.She currently lives and works in
Moscow .Other works
A complete contrast to the above works is the autobiographical series "the girl with bows, the woman that mows. the dance" which are personal revelations of the artist herself. It is here that the bright image of the girl reveals a polysemantic world of the name hades, the English spelling of the name of
Hades , the antique god (Aides, Αιδης) who is the master of the dead. But the hell of Hades is not associated either with the antique or the Christian world, it is sooner connected with that ofNietzsche ’s one: "even god possesses his hell – which is his love to people". "The girl with bows, the woman that mows. the dance" becomes the culmination of the series. "The dance" around pagan bonfires - the right became owned to communicate equally with the beyond. The initiation with fire that transforms and tempers the spirit is completed. There is no more fright. The terror of death has been overcome and it gives an ability to possess the sacred theme that suggested trepidation in the past. Lena Hades assimilates with stalker where the boundaries of two worlds meet each other.Books
Nietzsche F. “Thus spake Zarathustra”. Moscow, Institut of Philosophy of
Russian Academy of Sciences , 2004. ISBN 5-9540-0019-0Giametta Sossio “Commento allo Zarathustra”. Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2006. ISBN 88-424-9804-1
Nietzsche F. "Morgenroethe" / translated from German by Vadim Bakusev. — Мoscow: Akademicheskij Projekt, 2007. — ISBN 978-5-8291-0942-4
Paintings
External links
* [http://www.hades.ru/ All Lena Hades' works]
* [http://www.art-tusa.com/ Fotoarchive of the Russian contemporary art]
* [http://www.art-stalker.ru/ Lena Hades' works, media reviews, books, art critic articles]
* [http://www.geocities.com/hadeslena/ Oil paintings of the cycle Thus spake Zarathustra]
* [http://www.art-stalker.ru/ Oil paintings of the cycle Chimaeras]
* [http://www.svobodanews.ru/Transcript/2008/05/07/20080507020619227.html Lena Hades interview to Radio Liberty]
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