Tower of Babel 1958

Curator: Right, Rudy Pozzatti's 1958 etching, "Tower of Babel." Quite brooding, wouldn't you say? It's all dark lines converging into this…monolithic form. Like a suppressed scream. Editor: It feels unfinished somehow, or maybe decayed? Like we are seeing something crumbling. I wonder, what's your take on this depiction, and how it echoes the biblical story? Curator: Well, think about the ambition baked into that story. The audacity of trying to reach the heavens! Pozzatti captures that perfectly, but twists it. Look at the lines, that frenetic energy – it’s less about building and more about this internal turmoil, the ego cracking. Doesn't it feel…dangerous? Like something might explode from within the image? Editor: Absolutely! It’s not a celebratory tower. More like a…warning. Is that a reflection of the time it was created? The late 50s felt pretty anxious. Curator: Precisely. Pozzatti isn’t just illustrating a Bible story. He's excavating something raw, something universal about the human condition. He sees that urge for progress and creation colliding head-on with, well, our limitations. How does that strike you? Editor: It makes me rethink ambition. It’s like the image asks: what are we building, and at what cost? Curator: Exactly! Art like this, it's a conversation starter across centuries, isn't it? Pozzatti isn’t giving us answers, but giving us better questions.