The Danish artist Bjørn Skaarup realized a series called “Carnival of the animals”, from the musical suite of the same name, written by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens, which transform animal attributes into music.
The artist creates a world full of joy and delightful humour. It is inspired by many traditions, as well as that of the Fables of Aesop. Most of the stories of the ancient Greek writer speak of animals that have human characteristics.
Bjørn decides here to represent one of these fables of Aesop, “The Tortoise and the Hare”, in which the hare challenges its slow reptile friend to a race, and then rushes away at great speed. Confident about its certain victory, the hare decides to take a short nap before finishing the race, and then oversleeps while tortoise slowly and steadily walks to victory. In this representation, the competition has been turned into a sack race, in which the tortoise jumps away, and, after a last definitive spurt, reaches the goal only a split second before the hare.
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