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If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or menopause
and are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine
(Italian edition) featured several
of the above artists in an article about
this
museum and menstruation in 2003. The
newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine
Dishy (Turkey) showed some of
the artists in 2005 in articles about this
museum.
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of
Menstruation and Women's Health
"Mandragora menstrvalis"
"Vvlva dropping and reflected"
Opera Sangvinea
Dessovs vne Lvne Menstrvel
Ta Vvlve mon calice sacreé.
Mon vin Ton Sang.
De Toi j'ai été Vampir,
O Lvne Menstrvel de ma Nvit
Satvrniènne!
Vnder a Menstrval Moon
Yovr Vvlva my sacred chalice.
My wine Yovr Blood.
Of Yov I were Vampire,
Oh Menstrval Moon of my Satvrnine Night!
Poem, translation and
drawings by Maldoror Capvt
Corvi, who writes,
This is part of an alchemical
artwork project. The Menstrval
drawing
and poem are part of a Work called
Opera Sangvinea (a Work of
Blood)
concerning the Red stage in the
alchemical process, known as the
Rvbedo
stage, Red Dawn or Avrora
Consvrgens. This red stage of the
alchemical process
is symbolized by Venvs, the
Morning Star, the Dawn. The Avrora
or the Red
Dawn becames after the Night.
Satvrnine Night or the Nigredo
(Blackness)
is the stage, in the same
alchemical process, that preceeds
the Rvbedo or
the Red Dawn. Satvrnine becavse,
in alchemy, Satvrn is a symbol of
Death
and Melancholy. This is a stage of
Death also called Pvtrefaction,
Mortification
and Raven's Head, symbolized by
the Black Svn and the Raven. Opera
Nigra
is, so, the name of the Art
prodvction that becames before the
Opera
Sangvinea or Opera Rvbea.
These artwork projects make part
of
a global project of Arts called
PVTREFACTIO - mvsic (hermetic),
live performance,
video, painting, drawing, poetry -
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The sovnd projects: Ipse
Morietvr; Satvrnsk¦
Ensemble;
Capvt Corvi; Nox Satvrnii; Datvra
Stramonivm. I prefer to call it hermetic
mvsic, or satvrnine
mvsic, although some define
it as contemporary
experimental mvsic; obscvre
ritval mvsic; death-indvstrial
and even anti-mvsic.
Mvsical instrvments are
anti-conventional, like sickles,
as an example.
The sickle is connotated with
Satvrn (who always has one in his
hand).
The artist added, "I am from
Satvrn bvt I live in Lisbon,
Portvgal."
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artist: Maribel
Cruz
See all the
artists in the links in
the left-hand
column.
If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or
menopause and
are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact
MUM
See
also
Bea Nettles' art The
Moonsisters
© 2002 Harry
Finley. It is illegal to reproduce
or distribute
work on this Web site in any
manner or medium without written
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