A daring vintage photograph from the 1940s, by an unspecified photographer, whose wisely disguised a highly suggestive, homoerotic composition, by imitating the famous antique marble sculpture group “The Wrestlers” created in the 1st century BC, probably by the sculptor Myron and conserved in the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy.
The surviving Roman copy, known as “The Uffizi Wrestlers” is considered unique due to the lack of other historical variants or copies. It represents two naked males, locked together in the ancient Olympic sport of “Pancratio”, a type of hand to hand fighting/wrestling. The two males are intertwined, the “top” fighter, determined to block the “bottom” fighter by crushing him and twisting his arm (which by his smile, he seems to be enjoying) appears to be winning. His right leg is pushed forward while his left leg is intertwined with that of the other wrestler, who is kneeling and having his right arm twisted while he tries (rather unconvincingly) to fight back.
Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va.
On oublie le visage
et l'on oublie la voix,
le coeur, quand ça bat plus,
c'est pas la peine d'aller
chercher plus loin,
faut laisser faire et c'est très bien.
Avec le temps... (...)
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va,
et l'on se sent blanchi
comme un cheval fourbu
et l'on se sent glacé
dans un lit de hasard
et l'on se sent tout seul peut-être mais peinard
et l'on se sent floué par les années perdues.
Alors vraiment,
Avec le temps on n'aime plus.
