The Laocoon, a character of Greek mythology, was an inhabitant of Troy, seer and great priest of Poseidon. Mythology tells us that when the Trojans brought the famous Trojan horse into the city, he ran towards it, flinging it against a spear that made it resound its full stomach. Athena, who sided with the Greeks, punished Laocoon by sending Porcete and Caribea, two enormous sea serpents that enveloped him and his sons. This fate was immortalized in a Hellenistic marble sculpture, rediscovered in early 16th century Rome.
In the long tradition of art history, Titian made a drawing (later a woodcut) of the group as primates. And here Bjørn decides to represent the group in bronze also as chimpanzees who are playing with a ball and a garden hose.
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