TURIN - The thousand-year-old charm of Turin is enriched with a new chapter with the arrival of Mythos: Fantastic Creatures, which opens the doors of the Ancient Ice Houses of Porta Palazzo at the Central Market of Turin from 7 March.
The new exhibition will reveal for the first time the secrets of white magic and the legendary creatures that populate the collective imagination in the city of Turin, the Italian capital of esotericism.
Over thirty mythological subjects, from the wings of Pegasus six meters high to the majestic Phoenix which is reborn every day from its ashes, tell of a distant era and stories handed down from generation to generation.
The life-size models are prepared with taxidermy and sculpture techniques, and are set in settings with video projections and screens that transport you to fantastic worlds where creatures such as Anubis, the Egyptian god with the appearance of a dog, the legendary Dracula and the fearsome Cerberus take life before the eyes of the spectator.
But not only that: along the route you come across the Werewolf, a human being who transforms into a wolf during full moon nights, and Quetzalcoatl, the magnificent lord of creation and knowledge in Aztec mythology who reigns supreme over the city some gods.
His figure is characterized by a serpentine body adorned with splendid green and blue feathers (which recall the image of the Quetzal bird from which it takes its name) and represents the duality between heaven and earth, embodying cosmic balance and wisdom divine.
The exhibition continues with films in which Ovid guides the visitor by retracing the history of the myths and presenting some key figures of Greek mythology such as the Sphinx, a legendary creature of ancient Greek mythology, which with its lion body and human head challenges men with insoluble enigmas, such as the one proposed to the Thebans by Oedipus, and the Minotaur, half man and half bull, fruit of the gods' desire for revenge, who lives in a labyrinth and represents a constant challenge for the heroes who dare to face him, until he is defeated by Theseus with cunning and courage, thus freeing the people of Crete from his terrible dominion.
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