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Marsyas

[mahr-see-uhs]

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. a satyr who lost in a flute-playing competition with Apollo and was flayed alive as a penalty.



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Weatherford’s suite of paintings with neon lights attached are her response to Titian’s great late painting, “The Flaying of Marsyas.”

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As the mortal Marsyas discovered when he challenged the god Apollo and was skinned alive for his trouble, there are some things you shouldn’t try to compete with.

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“Marsyas is resigned to his fate. My works have been dealing with fate since 1986. I’m interested in the choice of whether to turn left or right.”

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While Weatherford’s paintings often feature swirls of color, the Marsyas works — on view through Nov. 27 — are shadowy and somber, with dominant tones of black, gray, violet and silver.

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With the Titian painting, which typically resides in Archbishop’s Palace in Kromeriz, Czech Republic, she wanted to ponder the thorny questions that it raises, given that Marsyas challenged Apollo to a musical competition, knowing he was likely to lose and pay a terrible price.

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