Andromeda (1979) - Michel Ventrone

This female figure, covered in copper scales, sits on her pedestal facing the Salève, gazing pensively at the world around her. Michel Ventrone's Andromeda is a far cry from her classical representations, which depict her as an ideal of the female body awaiting her savior. Named after the princess of Greek mythology condemned to be exposed naked to the assaults of a sea monster, she is here grouped, introspective, without pathos, already thinking of what comes next. It is resolutely modern,...