EDITION – "Ernstes Spiel: Verbinden (Kastor und Polydeukes)"

Michael Müller’s first exploration of the ancient mythological narrative of the twin brothers Castor and Polydeuces, the so-called Dioscuri, dates back to 2007, when he created the three-part drawing “Castor und Pollux. Durch Liebe sehen” [Castor and Pollux. Seeing Through Love].
The inseparable twins—conceived in one night by different fathers as sons of Leda—are torn apart when the mortal Castor dies in battle. The divine Polydeuces begs his father Zeus, who seduced Leda in the form of a swan, to take away his immortality so that he can be reunited with Castor in Hades, the realm of the dead. Touched by the twins’ love, Zeus gives the Dioscuri the opportunity to spend alternate days together in the realm of the dead and on Mount Olympus among the gods—to be born and die every day.
The motif of the drawing created especially for the edition for volume 1.4 of the catalogue raisonné is taken from “Castor und Pollux. Durch Liebe sehen” and executed in pencil on paper: An allegory of love and the bond between two so different and at the same time so alike as the mortal/immortal twins, nerve tracts that lead from the eye via the shared heart to the brain, the inseparability of aesthetic vision and intellectual comprehension, emotion and rationality in love.