Silenus
By Tim Shaw
2008
Tim Shaw
David Roberts Collection
Silenus relates to the 'Rites of Dionysos', a work commissioned by the Eden Project in 2000-4. It depicts Dionysos's tutor as the wise old fool, wearing antlers and clutching his erect penis, staring deeply into the eye's of the viewer.
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