"Divine Comedy" from Lego bricks. Mihai Mihu's original interpretation of the circles of hell

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Romanian artist Mihai Mihu never read the famous " Divine Comedy"Dante, just some of her excerpts on the Internet. However, this did not stop him from creating a sculpture … more precisely, 9 Lego sculptures that depict Nine circles of helldescribed by Dante. By the way, according to Mihai Mihu, it was his ignorance of the work that helped him make a truly authorial, original interpretation. In the first circle, as is known from the book, the souls of those who died before they were baptized, or who lived their life in paganism, are languishing, are languishing without knowing Christ. This is a place of "painless sorrow", and his name is Limb. Souls do not find rest, and wander through the ruins of the temple with plaintive groans. Sinking in the rivers of menstrual blood, tormented by painful erotic dreams, lustful souls languishing in the second circle, indulged in Lust and the vice of voluptuousness. Gluttons are forced to burn forever in the fire of gluttony, variegation. cauldron over low heat, rain and hail, no matter what happens. This is how the third circle looks.

The fourth circle is the greedy and wasteful people, whose punishment is to constantly drag weights from place to place. The souls of those who were hot-tempered and angry in life are forever floundering in the swamps of swamps that impede movement and do not allow free movement. And this makes vicious souls even more angry and angry. The River Styx is the fifth circle of Dante's Hell. Heretics and apostates are assigned the sixth circle, where they are devoured by red-hot lava. Sinners push each other into these waves of fire, and those who have committed terrible crimes against God and faith are forced to burn with eternal fire within the walls of the temple. A hideous huge demon is watching everything that happens, making sure that every sinner suffers enough.

In the seventh circle, sinners suffer who have committed violence against people or themselves. Their destiny is to boil in a pit of red-hot blood, or to turn into trees, which are always tormented by toothy and clawed harpies. Fraudsters, cheaters, scammers and deceivers are gathered in the eighth circle. They suffer in a special way: they either burn with swamp lights, or they are tormented by constant transformations caused by demonic spells. In the last, ninth circle, there are traitors. They are tormented by Lucifer, forever frozen into the ice and bound by the angel's seal. And this ice floe will not melt even the hellish flame, the heat of which is all-embracing and truly terrible. To bring this idea to life, the artist took about six months and more than 40 thousand building blocks.