Adam – Alexis Preller

‘A man wearing the mask of a Babylonian Magus (beard thick honeycomb)…turquoise eyes…he made that colour himself you don’t get that colour in a tube)‘ [1]. Alexis Preller’s ‘Adam‘ (1972) shares many physical characteristics with Babylonian magi sculptures from the period c. 4th century BC [2]. These male figures of power were conferred authority through the strong delineation of their beards, emphasising their jawlines and thus their masculinity…