Two-faced Janus looks to the past and future
Once known as First Month, Snow Month, Frosty Month, Wolf Month, the Roman god Janus, the guardian of gates and doors, is the name we now give to this time of year. January. Two-faced Janus looked back and looked forward, and artist Christo Coetzee's 'Janus' looks both ways. It invites us to think about past and future, about where we've been and where we're heading. "No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference," says Charles Lamb and this time round, after 2020, 2021 hasn't come quickly enough. Born in Johannesburg, 1929, Coetzee's father turned from farming to mining, then t...
Source: independent.ie