Minotaure and Snake : blue: linogravure

Description

Minotaure and Snake : blue linogravure by Stella Polare Artiste in Paris

Each year, as part of my artistic tradition, I create a special linogravure to mark the passage of time and send my heartfelt wishes into the world. Minotaure et le Serpent is my 2025 edition, carrying a message of healing, love, and renewal.

In this piece, the serpent of 2025 winds its way through fate, embodying transformation and balance. May it bring you the health, love, and strength you need—at precisely the right moment and precisely the right sphere.

This artwork is a limited edition of 88 copies, each one a testament to this moment in time, infused with intention and meaning.

About Minotaure :

The Minotaur is a character created by Stella Polare.

The character’s head consists of folded fingers in the so-called «Minotaur» gesture, «horns» hand-sign. According to the legend of Ancient Greece, King Minos was shamed by his subjects with a gesture, recalling the betrayal of his wife and the birth of a monster with a human body and a bull’s head. This creature was imprisoned in the Labyrinth. Reflections on the Minotaur came to Stella Polare after the pandemic, when the artist thought about the existence of the French letter H.

This is the letter that begins the word «Homme», which means «Man», «Honneur» – «Honor».

According to the artist, this letter lives in eternal imprisonment, and today its status must be revised, because we all know how to exist in isolation. Is this a real life? 

Thus in her graphics, the artist displays the letter H in the image of the Minotaur character in various spaces, devoid of frames, full of freedom and joy. Having received a smile on his face, the character receives a free spirit and finally a kind of visa – the right to live in any space without frames and rules, in the colors of brightness and life, finally positive experiences after a long struggle for rights, for peace, for freedom.

About Stella Polare :

French-Uzbek young contemporary artist, based in Paris. Her real name, Khulkar, is translated as «polare star», that is why she sas chosen the artistic name Stella Polare. Today the artist aims to transmit the message that it is «urgent to be joyful» though her art. Indeed the concept the artist is developing she called « vitaculture », that means the joy urgency. Stella Polare exhibited at UNESCO, Louvre, she had also carte blanche at Palais Jacques Coeur in 2021, the same year 2021 she was invited to the Parole des Femmes, public talk at the House of the Great French writer, Maison de George Sand.

Technical description

Minotaure et Dragon : ink on paper, type of the paper A4 Blanc Grain Moyen Fin A4 21×29,7 cm 300g.

Created in Paris in 2025.