Nico Carlucci
Days of Christmas day Winter in Milan. From the Paleolithic arrive just them, the ancestors of Venus by the Association, which organized the Celtic New Year, the Sforzesco Castle, an exhibition devoted to these female figures of archaic era: the Prehistory.
Here are extraordinary and unusual finds such as the Paleolithic Venus of Dolnà Vestonice of 27,500 a. C. ca. And 'one of the earliest pottery site. The finding
excited because we are in their infancy European figurative art. In it we can see the lines of thinking and the myth that the first agricultural societies, sedentary revolutionized the status of the species Homo sapiens, laying the foundations of our civilization. The exhibition was
opened on 5 December 2009 and close on 28 February 2010. In the Hall
Sforzesca there are other findings: from animal figurines of mammoth hunters impressive and sophisticated painted pottery to the monumental female figure Maovi'ce Moravian farmers of the fifth millennium BC In all there are 150 works of art Paleolithic and Neolithic.
But they are the main protagonists of the exhibition, the Venus of prehistory on which much has been said. Some anthropologists have even considered that these were evidence of the existence, in the millennia that have gone before us, the Matriarchy.
E 'the time - they said - the power of women in JJ Bachofen, historian and anthropologist of the nineteenth century, rivers of words devoted to proving to its existence. Some speak, by the way of this venerable, "the Great Mother, who, like the feminists, the evidence of a" history of women "and their" diversity. "
What surely matters, I believe, is the projection that man does, with these terracotta statuettes of women, which is here represented by shapes, hairstyles, faces, bodies. The female is a sign and symbol of cultural construction.
That 's what happened in the past, is what continues to happen in the present. The woman with her body shape or "ideal" figure or "broken" the basis of the sound of men for ever and ever.
