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Léo Caillard

Aphrodite Callipyge Rare Green, 2024

Green marble

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Caesar Gold Metaverse by Leo Caillard (vid)

In 44 bc, the year of Livia’s fourteenth birthday, a victorious general exchanged his laurel wreath for a leafy circlet made of gold. He wore with it the red-purple tunic and toga associated by Romans with military conquest, and red calf-length leather boots which, he claimed, had once formed part of the ceremonial dress of the kings of Alba Longa. He was Julius Caesar. At the beginning of the year, his position as dictator of Rome, traditionally granted for six months at times of national emergency, was declared permanent; he held the censorship lifelong. In all but name he had achieved the unthinkable and become king of the world’s proudest republic. Rome was turned on its head. The ramifications of Julius Caesar’s eminence were complex and radical, and would alter the course of many Roman lives, Livia’s among them. … Caesar’s formal powers, bestowed on him in principle by those same nobles acting as the Senate, exceeded all previous awards. Such a monopoly operating long-term was irreconcilable with Rome’s traditional government by elected magistrates culled from the city’s first families.

—Matthew Dennison, Livia, Empress of Rome

Human beings were developed so they could unfold within themselves what extended beyond the human, whereby the human soul lifted itself into the realm of spirituality. But then came the time when the human ego, as it lives here between birth and death, was born for human beings. This was the period coinciding with the occurrence of the Mystery of Golgotha. If the Mystery of Golgotha had not occurred, people would have degenerated; they would have descended from worshipping angels to worshipping the next subordinate hierarchy, man himself. When we recall how the Roman Caesars had themselves worshipped as gods, how they really were “gods” to the people, we shall know that at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha human beings had degenerated so far that they now no longer prayed to archai, archangels, or angels, but to man. In order to save men from praying to earthly human beings, it was necessary for the Divine Man to appear.

—Rudolf Steiner, The Karma of Vocation: Lecture X

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Hipsters In Stone Series by Leo Caillard at the City Hall of Saint Quentin, France in 2018: statues dressed in the fashion of the 1920s

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Classical Sculptures Assigned Hipster Roles

A statement on his website explains his witty creations, “Overlapping artwork, technology, and imagination, his meticulously crafted creations combine a delicate intertwining of the new and the historic. Caillard invites us to rediscover & question our social environment with a lightness of touch, humour and sensitivity.” By reassigning the roles of these elegant marble statues, the artist refurbishes their identity into more modern and relevant artworks, without hurting their integrity but making them come alive once again to a generation of hipster youth, curious of life and ingenuity.

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Super Heroes 

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Leo Caillard

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Heroes of Stone

Series by Leo Caillard

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