SCM Staff 27 Mar 2018 Artist Michael Mazur does something unusual in illustrating Dante’s Inferno: He lets us behold Dante Alighieri’s world through the poet’s eyes, not in third person. The harrowing vision is a project Mazur undertook from 1994 to 2000 in response to a translation by poet Robert Pinsky. Mazur considered this the most ambitious project in his life. Pinsky said that Mazur’s etchings “are themselves acts of translation.” Each etching—printed on vellum in dense black and white—is paired with cantos in Italian and English translation, chronicling Dante’s journey to hell and back. A tale centuries old becomes captivating and contemporary. Through June 2018, SCU’s de Saisset Museum hosts an exhibition of Mazur’s interpretation of the Inferno in its entirety. These are part of the museum’s permanent collection, a gift of Smith Andersen Editions—thanks to the late Paula Z. Kirkeby. CANTO III … cross to the other side Of the dark water, and before one throng can land On the far shore, on this side new souls crowd. CANTO XXXIV Through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars CANTO II Day was departing, and the darkening air CANTO III From every country, all of them eager to find Their way across the water. CANTO IV …how many worthy souls endured Suspension in that Limbo. CANTO IX “Oh let Medusa come,” the Furies bayed. CANTO XIV All over the sand Distended flakes of fire drifted from aloft. CANTO XXII We journeyed now With the ten demons. CANTO XXX “That monstrousness Is Gianni Schicchi; he runs rabid among The others here, and graces them like this. CANTO XXXI All round the bank encompassing the pit With half their bulk like towers above it, stood Horrible giants.
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