Daedalus & Icarus

Paul SavaNicola Meneghello Emilian Petrache

Yassine SaïdiOlle HoolboomSander Mulder

Exchange Utrecht-Padova

The StoryLine

• Daedalus and his son Icarus• From Kreta to Minos• Labyrinth with Minotaur• Escape out of the labyrinth• King of Minos wants Daedalus• Daedalus wants to escape• Wings of feathers and wax• Icarus flies to high• Wax melts and he falls in sea

Deeper meaningKarma & hasty climbers

have a sudden falls

“Every dream has a price”

Art

Antonio Canova, Dedalo e Icaro; 1779, marmo, altezza 2,20 m. Museo Correr, Venezia.

Charles Paul Landon, Daedalus cheers on Icarus to fly, 1779. Alençon, Musée des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle.

Jacob Peter Gowy, from a sketch of P.P.Rubens, Icarus fall, 1636-1638, oil on canvas. Madrid (Spain), Prado Museum.

LiteratureHarry Mulisch

James JoyceFrancesco Guccini

Icarus in 21st century

Why we shoudn‘t forget this myth